To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very centre of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions.
The crowd is his domain
He is looking for that indefinable something we may be allowed to call 'modernity'
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the-eternal and the immovable.
The draperies of Rubens or Veronese will not teach you how to paint any fabric produced by our mills
Woe betide the man who goes to antiquity for the study of anything other than ideal art, logic and general method!
He (our modern artist) began by looking at life, and only later did he contrive to learn how to express life
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