“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”
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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
