“For the most part I felt nothing but scorn for an art form that required the pretense that it was natural for people to communicate with one another in rhymed song. ”
“Art is the most effective form of communication.”
“Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.”
“Writing is one of the most ancient forms of prayer. To write is to believe communication is possible that other people are good, that you can awaken their generosity and their desire to do better.”
“It has come to this, that the lover of art is one, and the lover of nature another, though true art is but the expression of our love of nature.”
“Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.”