But is the
art of medicine or any other
art faulty or deficient in any quality in the same way that the eye may be deficient in sight or the ear fail of hearing, and therefore requires another
art to provide for the interests of seeing and hearing-- has
art in itself, I say, any similar liability to fault or defect, and does every
art require another supplementary
art to provide for its interests, and that another and another without end?
Thus, historically viewed, it has been the office of
art to educate the perception of beauty.
For love is the enemy of haste; it takes count of passing days, of men who pass away, of a fine
art matured slowly in the course of years and doomed in a short time to pass away too, and be no more.
Thus in the music of the flute and of the lyre, 'harmony' and rhythm alone are employed; also in other
arts, such as that of the shepherd's pipe, which are essentially similar to these.
Joe and Delia met in an atelier where a number of
art and music students had gathered to discuss chiaroscuro, Wagner, music, Rembrandt's works, pictures, Waldteufel, wall paper, Chopin and Oolong.
And it is to be noted that it is the fact that
Art is this intense form of Individualism that makes the public try to exercise over it in an authority that is as immoral as it is ridiculous, and as corrupting as it is contemptible.
'Tis thus that the marvellous
art of the Middle Ages has been treated in nearly every country, especially in France.
"That shows our Master's contempt for mere
Art," said the Second Poet, grinning.
In truth, it is too strong for any place but a public
Art Gallery.
With his disinterested passion for
art, he had a real desire to call the attention of the wise to a talent which was in the highest degree original; but he was too good a journalist to be unaware that the "human interest" would enable him more easily to effect his purpose.
It falls naturally into two parts, the first of about twenty years, when he was concerned almost altogether with
Art, chiefly Painting and Architecture; and the second somewhat longer, when he was intensely absorbed in the problems of society and strenuously working as a social reformer.
The meanest mathematician in Spaceland will readily believe me when I assert that the problems of life, which present themselves to the well-educated -- when they are themselves in motion, rotating, advancing or retreating, and at the same time attempting to discriminate by the sense of sight between a number of Polygons of high rank moving in different directions, as for example in a ball-room or conversazione -- must be of a nature to task the angularity of the most intellectual, and amply justify the rich endowments of the Learned Professors of Geometry, both Static and Kinetic, in the illustrious University of Wentbridge, where the Science and
Art of Sight Recognition are regularly taught to large classes of the ELITE of the States.