A manufacturer of steel does not wake up every morning to wrestle with the question What is Steel? He knows that by putting iron through a process of fire he gets a tough product usable as rails, as armor or as girders. If a rail is more malleable than armor he does not ask himself: Is the rail steel or is the armor steel? For him, they are both steel.

But the poor toiler in the workshop of Litera ture or Painting or Music must daily ask himself What is Art? And his critics will constantly tell him that, for instance, his job of last week was Art but his new bit of work isn't Art at all. Or he will be told (and he himself will be suspicious of the truth) that he never has, never will, never can create a work of Art.

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