WORKS OF ART And What Makes Them Great By F. W. RUCKSTULL MEMBER NATIONAL INSTITUTE ARTS AND LETTERS; ORGANIZER OF NATIONAL SCULPTURE SOCIETY; FIRST CHIEF OF Nothing makes the soul so pure, so religious, as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives for it, strives for something that is Godlike. True painting is only an image of God's perfection,-a shadow of the pencil with which He paints, a melody, a striving after harmony. MICHAEL ANGELO. Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. DANTE. For his chaste Nuse employed her heaven-taught lyre One line, which dying he could wish to blot. BULWER-LYTTON. He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of great ideas. RUSKIN. Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. MICHAEL ANGELO. Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young And always keep us so. EMERSON. |