Some principles of every-day art: introductory chapters on the arts not fine (1890)
Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, Batsford · leaf 33
ribed mainly to the degree of culture to whichthey had attained. It would seem that the quality of taste, as revealedin the art of the past, may be the outcome eitherof simplicity, of submission, or of culture. Seeingthat the times on which we have fallen are out oftune with simplicity, and since… … HE opinion a manmay hold concern-ing old work is byno means a fixedquantity : it pro-gresses, in a some-what curious order.We begin in ourignorance by con-demning it verylikely as barbarousor old-fashioned ; on further acquaintance, we findourselves attracted to it; and by degrees we aretaken…
Decoration and ornament
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