Some principles of every-day art: introductory chapters on the arts not fine (1890)
Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, Batsford · leaf 142
not to be confounded with principles even though they beput forth on authority. The prin-ciples enunciated by Owen Jonesin his Grammar of Ornamentare, strictly speaking, only a de-scription of the lines on which thattasteful artisthimself worked,pluscertain dogmas deduced from his own practice.… … 130 Every-day Art. may go so far as to doubt if any good can come ofdogmatism. When once a student has passed thatfirst stage of art, where he has not to ask questionsbut to do what he is told and believe what he istaught, then the dicta of even the best of teachers areuseful only in proportion to…
Decoration and ornament
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