It's more like religion.
MR. WENTWORTH
There you are!
JOE
There we are! Isn't there a struggle going on all the time to free
religion, the _spirit_ of religion, from hard and fast rules and from
false emotions? It's exactly the same thing.
MR. WENTWORTH
Ah, but rules are necessary to maintain order. That's what I insist about
art. We _must_ have rules!
SILVIA
I know exactly what you mean, Mr. Wentworth. You mean that if fanatics
tore down all the churches on the street corners, and there weren't any
more Sunday morning sermons, everybody would run wild. But there again
it's the same thing as with art: the man who has the spirit of the thing
in him feels that the spirit itself is a far better control than heaps of
stones and sermons. It's all a matter of _living_. Imagine asking one of
the Apostles which church he went to!
MR. WENTWORTH
Wait! We are getting art mixed up with too much else. Didn't you say, Mr.
Carson, that pictures died when they no longer gave out impulses of
beauty?
JOE
Yes.
MR. WENTWORTH
Well! I admit there are dead pictures, too many of them, but they are the
canvasses that were still-born.
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