THE MIND OF THE ARTIST

[Illustration: _Rembrandt_ THE POLISH RIDER _Berlin Photographic Co_]

THOUGHTS AND SAYINGS OF PAINTERS
AND SCULPTORS ON THEIR ART

COLLECTED & ARRANGED BY
MRS. LAURENCE BINYON


WITH A PREFACE BY GEORGE CLAUSEN, R.A.

LONDON
CHATTO & WINDUS
1909

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PREFACE


It is always interesting and profitable to get the views of workmen on
their work, and on the principles which guide them in it; and in
bringing together these sayings of artists Mrs. Binyon has done a very
useful thing. A great number of opinions are presented, which, in their
points of agreement and disagreement, bring before us in the most