If a painless death, leaving behind beautiful progeny, is the sign of a happy natural state, then the endings of the other arts show us the example of just such a happy natural state.

Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is to that which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.