The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call works of art.

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

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

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

It is not by his mixing and choosing, but by the shapes of his colors, and the combination of those shapes, that we recognize the colorist. Color becomes significant only when it becomes form.

Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.

Comfort came in with the middle classes.

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

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

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

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

I have no regrets. Everything that happens to me was divinely ordered.

Old age begins when reflection overcomes planning.

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.

Knowledge come from looking around; wisdom comes from looking up.

I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.

I think the Internet has made things a lot easier. Twitter and Facebook let you really connect to your readers effortlessly!

You haven't seen me in my own ads. You don't see my logo all over my clothes. From the beginning, I wanted the clothes to stand on their own.

A liar is always lavish of oaths. [Fr., Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.]

He who is everywhere is nowhere.

And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.