The ideal art critic is not the critic who tries to discover mistakes, ignorance, imitations in the form, but he who tries to feel and understand how the form expresses the inner feeling of the artist and who tries to make the public understand.
A painter may use new and strange forms for the sake of the forms, just for the sake of painting new and strange pictures, but the result will be lifeless.
It is only when new and strange forms are used because they are necessary to express a spiritual content that the result is a living work of art.
“The world reverberates; it is a cosmos of spiritually working human beings. Thus matter is living spirit.”
Rather a fine philosophy, is it not?
One cannot but feel that out of such thoughts good works must come.
To quote once more from a personal letter: