Some principles of every-day art: introductory chapters on the arts not fine (1890)
Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, Batsford · leaf 58
picture with nature, or decorationwith a picture, is in either case, to judge it by afalse standard, that is to say to misjudge it. Judgeornament after its kind, consider it as ornament,and you cannot fail to see that its most essentialcharacteristic is fitness. There are some to whom the necessary… … 46 Every-day Art. of colour, music a stopping short of words, poetry astopping short of reaUty; and like them, decorativeart stops discreetly short. But this apparent*stopping short is really selection, a deliberateand wise rejection of this or that for the momentunimportant fact, in favour of the…
Decoration and ornament
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