The important point which both objections seem to miss, was that I was not proposing a return to any set of past criteria. In fact the essential ground of my original article was an objection to the mindless rigidity which has elevated whimsy to the status of an absolute criterion. Today, in a society which has come to worship the "cult of Personality" we have developed a preoccupation with neurosy in all its forms. Among the symptoms common to all forms of neurosy are the bizarre, irrelevance of habitual behavior. When this appears as a pot we applaud its novelty, approve it as a manifestation of some personality, and award prizes for uniqueness. Now, if what we are concerned with is mental health, this process may have some Freudian justification, but it has nothing to do with pots. Mr. Bozak's idea of "pursuing ourselves through a media like clay" - sounds aS messy as itis. And Mr, Sures' notion of Art as some sort of communication suggests at best an improper marriage between McLuhan and a society desperate to have its trivialities taken seriously. Now, because we have electricity and machines, anarchy can at last be justified. We don't have to think any more, all we have to do is act, feel, respond with immediacy, exist. Our credentials are guaranteed and any criticism is automatically improper! It is not simply the feelings, anguish, or idiosyncracies of an age which issue in its art. These things give rise only to the curios and artifacts, which allow us to see and understand its weaknesses, Art expresses its aspirations and its excellences, By its art we can learn to see its strengths. In my original article I was pleading for such criteria as might give us anart. I would object and do object to past criteria, traditionalism, any other nostalgic references, together with such inappropriate substitutes for evaluation as I] have mentioned above. Once again may I repeat Art has nothing to do with self discovery, self expression, or any other form of therapy. Only commercial art can be concerned with propa- ganda currently called communication, or any other sort of expression of transient social convictions. I am concerned with Art, not artifacts.