The Fine Arts and Their Uses: Essays on the Essential Principles and Limits of Expressions of the Various Arts, With Especial Reference to Their Popular Influence

Excerpt from The Fine Arts and Their Uses: Essays on the Essential Principles and Limits of Expressions of the Various Arts, With Especial Reference to Their Popular Influence

The right appreciation of Art does not come by intuition, but by study and serious thought. The following pages have been written with the simple design of awakening such an interest in the subject as may lead to further investigation. I do not presume to come forward as an Art-teacher, but only to offer such thoughts and conclusions as have occurred to me in the course of my own inquiries on the subject, in the hope that they may induce some, at least, of my readers to think the matter out for themselves.

I am aware that much of what I have said has been said before, in a different and better way, by others.

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