The primary duty of the human community toward art is to respect it and its spiritual dignity, and to be interested in its living process of creation and discovery. It is no more easy nor arbitrary to judge a work of art than to judge a work of science or philosphy. A work of art conveys to us that spiritual treasure which is the artist’s own singular truth, for the sake of which he risks everything and to which he must be heroically faithful.
— Jacques Maritain (via howitzerliterarysociety)






