Education is a set of analogies to a genuinely human existence, of which the arts are the model. Merely human life is of course a demonic analogy or … - Northrop Frye

Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like nature, has to be distinguished from the systematic study of it, which is criticism.

One of the major activities of art consists in sharpening the edge of platitudes to make them enter the soul as realities. (p. 7)

Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favour with its original audience as a new generation up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of "quaint" and cultivated people become interested in it, and finally it begins to take on the archaic dignity of the primitive.