“There is one indubitable indication distinguishing real art from its counterfeit, namely, the infectiousness of art… however poetical, realistic, effectful, or interesting a work may be, it is not a work of art if it does not evoke that feeling… of joy and of spiritual union with… the author and with… those who are also infected by it… (T)he receiver…is so united to the artist that he feels as if the work were his own and not someone else’s – as if what it expresses were just what he had long been wishing to express.”
– from “What is Art?”
