Orthodoxy plants itself on this instinct, and elaborates its various theories, which men accept for a time as a sufficient explanation of their difficulty, and then reject when their inconsistencies appear.
"Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors"
James Freeman Clarke
The thing he has to build is a monument of pure visual art; that is what he plans, designs, elaborates, and finally executes.
"Since Cézanne"
Clive Bell
He takes his impressions home and elaborates them; he brings his intellect to bear on them; and, as this exhibition shows, without robbing them of their bloom, makes of them something solid and satisfying.
"Since Cézanne"
Clive Bell