The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.