Its life depends on the degree to which it is inhabited by mystery, speaks to us of the unknown. - Patrick Swift

To know what it is to look at things, life as a prayer, a mass, a celebration.

Perhaps this is the great weakness of all criticism, that it tends to take facts derived from the examination of unimportant works and applies them in making a judgement about a man whose whole importance rests in the successful work, where these facts do not exist.

The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.