A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same.
Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at.
At least, some of them are. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One exhausts what they have to say in a very short time, and then they become as tedious as one's relations. Art - the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised. The more it tells you the less you know.