It isolates our inner experience and within its limits brings it to that perfect self-agreement which is the characteristic of every art.
We might easily trace further the various means by which each particular art overcomes the chaos of the world and renders a part of it in a perfectly isolated form in which all elements are in mutual agreement.
We might develop out of this fundamental demand of art all the special forms which are characteristic in its various fields.

We might also turn to the applied arts, to architecture, to arts and crafts, and so on and see how new rules must arise from the combination of purely artistic demands and those of practical utility.

But this would lead us too far into esthetic theory, while our aim is to push forward toward the problem of the photoplay.

Of painting, of drama, and of music we had to speak because with them the photoplay does share certain important conditions and accordingly certain essential forms of rendering the world.

Each element of the photoplay is a picture, flat like that which the painter creates, and the pictorial character is fundamental for the art of the film.