Excerpt from On Drawing and Painting
In presenting this book to the public I want to say, at once, that it is not the book I hoped to write. As I thought of it and imagined it before writing it, it was much more interesting and much better written than it is. It is better written than I wrote it, however; thanks to Dean Briggs who has been reading and correcting my proof sheets. He has devoted many hours of a summer vacation to this labor of love, for which I am deq ly grateful. I have had many helpful suggestions, also, from John Briggs Potter, a friend who does not always agree with me but nevertheless believes in me. He has been interested for many years, as I have been, in the study of the Set-Palette and its possibilities and we have exchanged ideas constantly. He has a profound knowledge of Italian Painting which he has given to me without reserve. I am indebted, also, to my devoted secretary, Edgar Oscar Parker, who has helped me at all times and in every possible way, with unfailing patience and intelligence.
In expressing my appreciation of assistance so generously given, I am in no sense shifting over to my friends any responsibility for this book. It is in every sense my book. Thinking of it at this moment, when it is passing out of my hands into those of the reader, I am alarmed to realize how much of myself I have put into it and to what extent I am giving myself away in publishing it. I have presumed to give the reader my views of Righteousness, Truth and Beauty, and I have not hesitated to make quotations from Plato and Aristotle: thereby suggesting that the reader is neither a gentleman nor a scholar.
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