Florence Earle Coates Quote

The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal... The business of art is to appeal to the soul.


The New York Times (10 December 1916) From "Godlessness Mars Most Contemporary Poetry."


The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal... The business ...

The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal... The business ...

The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal... The business ...

The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal... The business ...