All art is quite useless.
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
