Considerations On Painting: Lectures Given in the Year 1893 At the ...
Considerations On Painting: Lectures Given in the Year 1893 At the ...
La Farge, John, 1835-1910
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140 LECTUBE IV of meclianics, what he has to do is all that he can manage. It cannot be done too thoroughly, too singly. He is like the general, the com- mander in the field: the battle has to be won; what side issues can there be ? The riders tram- ple down their own companions who have fallen j the cannon wheels crush out friend and foe. From this habit of mind alone^ the artist, on the side that he has in common with men of action, may well retain that attitude which marks the soldier in a c...ause. "A quoi pensez-vous ? " (What do you think of all this?) said Fromentin the painter, to his friend the officer, who was holding, almost by mere force of will, some little far-off post in the desert, just conquered. " My friend," the officer answered, "if I thought of all this, I should become too much of a philosopher for a soldier." So also, the artist usually closes his mind to argument ; wisely enough, the combination of his instincts reminds him — convinces him of a fact : that his opponent's being able to argue better MISAPPREHENSIONS OF MEANING 141 than lie does, does not prove his opponent to be in the right ; it only proves that his opponent is stronger in argument.
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