Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is, therefore, the power of humanizing nature, of infusing the thoughts and passions of man into everything which is the object of his contemplation.

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

Our myriad-minded Shakespeare.

Art is a fruit that grows in man.

I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds, The gray and wintry sides of many glens, And did but half remember human words, In converse with the mountains, m…

The human race, my intuition tells me, is not outside the cosmic process and is not an accident. It is as much a part of the universe as the trees, the mountai…