Arbor vitae : a book on the nature & development of imaginative design for the use of teachers, handicraftsmen & others (1910)
Blount, Godfrey · London : A.C. Fifield · leaf 194
scan change his inarticulate figures into living facts, we shall onlyprize the lesson of his peculiar skill more and show ourselves hisworthier disciples. One of the greatest secrets of imaginative inventionin every branch of art is the power of realising a suggestion thatis no more than a shadow,… … IT would be impossible to imagine a consistent scheme of decorativeart without subordinating natural things not only to conventionalshapes, but to artificial situations and arrangements as well.The conventional shape of a thing that has been accepted as itssymbol for a long time becomes a type, as…
Decoration and ornament
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