Some principles of every-day art: introductory chapters on the arts not fine (1890)
Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, Batsford · leaf 14
to pass forpious, resort only atintervals. So, also, atreasured painting maybe the shrine at which a man offers up in privatethe incense of his admiration. But every dayand all day long we breathe the atmosphere ofornament. There is no escape from its influence,(jood or bad, it pervades every… … 2 Every-day Art. eyes and decline to take heed of it, though thereare all about us forms of it which every cultivatedman would evade at any cost if he could. Itmay be to us a dream of beauty or a nightmare,but we cannot shake it off. At every turn inlife we come face to face with some fresh phaseof…
Decoration and ornament
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