Art may be said to be a sort of varying point, lyingupon a line somewhere between personal preferenceand unpersonal nature. Pushed too near personalityart becomes insanity : set too close to unassimilatednature it is banality. Here then, in short, are theScylla and Charybdis, either of which may… … music186 THE PAINTING BY HAROLD KNIGHT
Art · Decoration and ornament
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