WILFULNESS AND WISDOM 74

"THE MAGIC FLUTE" 86

PROCESS OR PERSON? 97

THE ARTIST AND THE TRADESMAN 110

PROFESSIONALISM IN ART 120

WASTE OR CREATION? 132




ESSAYS ON ART


"The Adoration of the Magi"


There is one beauty of nature and another of art, and many attempts have
been made to explain the difference between them. Signor Croce's theory,
now much in favour, is that nature provides only the raw material for
art. The beginning of the artistic process is the perception of beauty
in nature; but an artist does not see beauty as he sees a cow. It is his
own mind that imposes on the chaos of nature an order, a relation, which
is beauty. All men have the faculty, in some degree, of imposing this
order; the artist only does it more completely than other men, and he