"In the whole range of human occupations, is it possible to imagine a poorer thing than an iconoclast?"

In the whole range of human occupations, is it possible to imagine a poorer thing than an iconoclast? It is the lowest of all the unskilled trades. And like many other unskilled trades it has no power of combination; the mere 'unconventional' moderns cannot agree upon which convention to destroy. An artist, at any rate, ought evidently to be not only something different from an iconoclast, but the opposite of an iconoclast. He ought to be a maker of images, not a breaker of them. He ought to be not a destroyer, but a creator of gods.

-The Daily News, as quoted in The Book Buyer: A Monthly Review of American and Foreign Literature (1905)