Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
For every artist, experience is never complete until it has been reproduced in creative work.
The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.