The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist isart’s aim. The critic is he who can translate into an-other manner or a new material his impressionof beautiful things. The highest, as the lowest, form of criti-cism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meaning in beautifulthings are corrupt without being charming. Thisis a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beau-tiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful thingsmean only Beauty. The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist isart’s aim. The critic is he who can translate into an-other manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest, as the lowest, form of criti -Cism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meaning in beautifulthings are corrupt without being charming. Thisis a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beau-tiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to Who beautiful thingsmean only Beauty.