We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectat…

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft is the type.

A coup sur, cet homme, tel que je l'ai depeint, ce solitaire doue d'une imagination active, toujours voyageant a travers le grand desert d'hommes, a un but plu…

'Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.'

Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.