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While therefor the color in a painting is [[strikethrough]] more less [[/strikethrough]] a part of the colorite rather than a part of real things and while the color is placed on the canvas with regard only to the colorite or color effect and harmony of the painting (which would be quite perfect as such whether the  things are recognizable or not), it, nevertheless, cannot be put down with an arbitrary, unjustified, [[underline]] brush stroke [[/underline]] but it [[underline]] must confine its extent or [[/underline]] plane-figure, by outline, proportion, direction, to the conditions and causes which so produced the color: In that way we recognize the thing, the objectivity of the motif, and attach our interests to it, awakened by color. Many ordinary, unimportant things have beautiful own colors, as insects, flowers, birds, the small arts, etc. Their colorite is not capable of harmonious variation, like landscape. They are limited as motifs. But their unusual possibilities of beautiful color the landscape painter must emulate.

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