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When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.

When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.

W. H. Auden

Art, Wish, Looks

"The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("Postscript: Christianity & Art"), (p. 461), 1962.

To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away / For one small Goya or a Daumier.

W. H. Auden

Art, Apples, Giving

1936 'Letter to Byron', pt.3, stanza 20, collected in Poems, Essays, Dramatic Writings 1927-1939 (1977).