Art (n.) is a dream for awakened minds, a work of imagination withdrawn from ordinary life, dominated by the same forces that dominate the dream, and yet giving us a perspective and dimension on reality that we don't get from any other approach to reality.
Art (n.) is a form of creative paranoia, which counteracts the real paranoia that starts wars and buggers nature.
Art (n.) is a material world, but the material of an intelligible spiritual world.
Art (n.) is capable of proving the inadequacy of abstract and rational ideas by the rule that examples and illustrations are more powerful than doctrines or precepts.
Art (n.) is the desire to transform the physical world into a human one.
Art (n.) is essentially esoteric while religion is open to all.
Art (n.) is form and synthesis, but art in so incoherent a world as ours can only be an art stuck together out of odds and ends.
Art (n.) is human... hence when it 'imitates' nature it assimilates nature to human forms.
Art (n.) is not an escape from reality but a vision of the world in its human form.
Art (n.) is practical, not speculative... imaginative, not fantastic... it transforms experience, and does not merely interpret it.
Art (n.) speaks with authority, but not the familiar authority of parental or social conditioning, rather authority from some mysterious source.
Art's (n.) limits seem to lie somewhere between pure dream & pure reality.
Art (n.) , unlike science, does not evolve or improve, partly because vision, being pure wish, can reach its conceivable limits at once.
Art (n.) is that the author's consciousness merely held the nozzle of the hose, so to speak.
Art (n.) is that wherein we learn as the child learns, through the concrete illustration of stories and pictures.
Art (n.) is the sharpening of the edge of platitudes to make them enter the soul as realities.
Art (n.) is to awaken faith by making us aware of the imaginative world concealed within us.