Aims and ideals of representative American painters (1901)
Rummell, John, Berlin, Emma Medora · Buffalo, N. Y. : E. M. Berlin · leaf 28
ay, I dont know anythingabout painting, but I know what Ilike. Then, after having disqualifiedthemselves as critics by this confessionthey proceed arrogantly to pick flaws inthe v/ork of some great master, or offerwholly inconsequential reasons for ad-miring the superficial and conventionaleffort… … T is a common conception Hrt and feature, that as art is an imitation ofNature, the more perfect theimitation the more perfectthe art. Let us pause for a moment toconsider this proposition, to see if it betrue, and if not true, let us inquire whatthe purpose of art really is; it willhelp us the…
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