Nothing so effectively economizes effort and intelligence, as distinct from anxiety, as the knowledge that nothing can be done. John Kenneth Galbraith
Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius. George Edward Woodberry