"THE PREFACE (abridged): The artist is the creator of beautiful things.To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim....Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty....the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved....No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.All art is quite useless."-OW