The disastrous and widening cleavage...

The disastrous and widening cleavage between the Church and the Arts on the one hand and between the State and the Arts on the other leaves the common man with the impression that the artist is something of little account, either in this world or the next; and this has had a bad effect on the artist, since it has left him in a curious spiritual isolation. Yet with all his faults, he remains the person who can throw the most light on that "creative attitude to life" to which bewildered leaders of thought are now belatedly exhorting a no less bewildered humanity.