Viewing page 34 of 39

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

33

So much importance to them, and reward excellence in them with so much distinction, that the student forgets there is anything else to be acquired. The facilities for such acquisitions have become [[strikethrough]] so [[/strikethrough]] very great, but these will not make an artist. The fine arts are works of the imagination, and the skill of the hand and eye, is but the means of communicating to others, those thoughts and feelings, which distinguish the artist from the artisan. The mere picture-maker is not above any other nice workman. Even in branches of the art which seem hardly to admit of much invention [[strike through]] and [[/strikethrough]] or exercise of the mind, their power is still enough to make all the difference between good and bad. No uncultivated [[strikethrough]] mad [[/strikethrough]] man, whatever be his manual dexterity, can paint a good portrait, or even make a good likeness. The mind of the artists shines out even through his copy of anothers features.

Great artists have sometimes began 

Transcription Notes:
Unsure of the 3rd strikethrough word I'm fairly certain the 3rd strikethrough word is mad. However, I could be wrong.