All the cases in which means and ends are external to one another are non-esthetic. — John Dewey

Coleridge said that every work of art must have about it something not understood to obtain its full effect.

The true antithesis of nature is not art but arbitrary conceit, fantasy, and stereotyped convention.

When there is genuine artistry in scientific inquiry and philosophic speculation, a thinker proceeds neither by rule nor yet blindly, but by means of meaning that exist immediately as feelings having qualitative color.