Menpes, Mortimer, 1855-1938, Menpes, Dorothy · London : A. & C. Black · leaf 154
rld over ; but it is between the lesser artists of Japanand the myriads of comparatively unknown artists ofEurope that there is so great a gulf fixed. Japaneseminor artists are artists indeed. Our minor artists are,I fear, anything but artists. The veriest Japanesecraftsman is an artist first and a… … i kfr^ f Painters and their Methods selling, whilst our men—the jerry builder, the plumber,the furniture maker, and the carpenter—give in returnfor solid money an article which it would break theheart of the merest artisan in Japan to put forward asthe work of his hands. But perhaps nowhere is…
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