Read it through once

"I am an artist, and therefore I prefer the critic of art as art. He alone understands me. The other critic mistakes the artist for an educator, and blames him when he does not preach. But art does not preach; it creates. Its function is not to enforce morality, but to be the interpreter of life in terms of beauty. The moralist may remain upon his mountain-top, and shout down his precepts to the crowd. The artist must get among the people, and show them life in its perfection. He is the apostle of sensation rather than of doctrine."