As I understand it, art is one of the chief organs of what, for want of a better word, I must call the spiritual life. - Roger Fry

My paintings do no more than give an idea of my wanderings in search of a guiding principle in art

It was inevitable that artists should turn around and question the validity of the fundamental assumption that art aimed at representation; and the moment the question was fairly posed it became clear the pseudo scientific assumption that fidelity to appearance was the measure of art had no logical foundation.

I fancy all distinctively poetical language ought to be banned and the poetry come out of the quality of the idea and the intensity or passion with which it is expressed.