I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
For that beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.[La civilisation ne recule jamais, et il semble qu’elle emprunte tous les droits à la nécessité.]
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.[La nécessité est, d’ailleurs, de tous les maîtres, celui qu’on écoute le plus et qui enseigne le mieux.]
