If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.