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There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

Comfort came in with the middle classes.

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life.

Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form.

It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.