Some principles of every-day art: introductory chapters on the arts not fine (1890)
Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, Batsford · leaf 98
y, too blunder-ingly, and altogether too stupidly, after the mannerof his brutal kind. Much good work is suffocatedwith false finish, the perpetrator possibly justifyingthe deed to his conscience by the thought that heloves his art too well to exercise restraint uponhimself A far more certain sign… … T^^^^OTHING is morestriking to a stu-dent of old workthan the tradi-tional characterof the best orna-ment. So muchis this so thatthere is more thana possibility offorms intrinsically beautiful becoming at last weari-some to us from perpetual repetition. We haveeven to remind ourselves that, however…
Decoration and ornament
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