Work And Worship : Essays On Culture And Creative Art

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When the Brahman father renounced his attachment to the son of his body, Brahma gave him a fairy changeling, an offspring of the higher functions of his nature — the imaginative, not the physical — moulded by art, vivified by the spirit.
When we say that art is a substitute for life, we do not mean that the pursuit of art either in creation or appreciation is to take the place of living. The necessities of our being will drive us into associated action with our fellow-beings. To even the most d
...evoted artist his art is not the whole of his life.
Decently draped household virtues will hang invisibly about the boldest canvas of the nude.
A bank-book has been known to lie without a blush beside the palette of a great painter.
Life may at a pinch indeed hobble along with- out art, but art without life not at all. Art is bound to life as much through the dinner table of the artist as through bis eyes and hands.
There are, however, two attitudes to life ; one (which is less a conscious attitude than an unconscious necessity), our absorption in the detailed activities of life, when our eyes are THE FOUR DEGREES OF ART 85 blinded by multiplicity against the large generalities of art ; the other, when we with- draw to a distance from life in order to get a better view of it, as the artist steps back from his easel the better to see his picture.


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