No art reaches a larger audience daily, no esthetic influence finds spectators in a more receptive frame of mind.

On the other hand no training demands a more persistent and planful arousing of the mind than the esthetic training, and never is progress more difficult than when the teacher adjusts himself to the mere liking of the pupils.

The country today would still be without any symphony concerts and operas if it had only received what the audiences believed at the moment that they liked best.

The esthetically commonplace will always triumph over the significant unless systematic efforts are made to reenforce the work of true beauty.

Communities at first always prefer Sousa to Beethoven.