The artist is justified by his art.

Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it. Neither, on the other hand, is there any special grace in ugliness. Art is only utterance. It must express something and the vital question is, what does it express?

The scope of art is practically boundless it does not begin and end with the painting of pictures and the modeling of statues where there is room for workmanship there is room for it.