We can only see Art now through the eyes of others who came before us.

We cannot create anything new.

We look at painting through Raphael; sculpture through Angelo; poetry through Shakespeare; philosophy through Plato.

It is all done for us; we are copyists.

The world is getting old--how glorious to have lived when it was young! But nowadays the very children are blase." "And you--are not you blase to talk like that, with your genius and all the world before you ?" I asked laughingly, slipping my arm through hers.