Degrade first the arts if you'd mankind degrade, Hire idiots to paint with cold light and hot shade.

That the Jews assumed a right Exclusively to the benefits of God. will be a lasting witness against them. & the same will it be against Christians

To Generalize is to be an Idiot. To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit-General Knowledges are those Knowledges that Idiots possess

Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public RECORDS to be True.

I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts was. The best thing I could come up with was what I call the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts. T…

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissanc…

But the one thing you shd. not do is suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.