Matter-of-fact minds can learn enough not to be intolerable, the average enough to guide and safeguard their taste.

They are important, for they will be in general the multitude, the public, whose judgment is of consequence by its weight of numbers; they will by their demand make art go upwards or downwards according to their pleasure.

For the few, the precious few who are chosen and gifted to have a more definite influence, all the love they can acquire in their early years for the best in art will attach them for life to what is sane and true and lovely and of good fame.
The foundations of all this lie very deep in human nature, and taste will be consistent with itself throughout the whole of life.

It manifests itself in early sensitiveness and responsiveness to artistic beauty.

It determines the choice in what to love as well as what to like.