Excerpt from Six Portraits: Della Robbia, Correggio, Blake, Corot, George Fuller, Winslow Homer
In associating six artists so far apart in time and character, I have tried to bind them together by a tangible connecting thread. Indeed, two such threads have guided me in writing.
First of all, I wanted to show the meaning of individuality in art; to illustrate what Emerson implied when he said Art is Nature "passed through the alembic of man." The main thing for an artist is to express himself - to clarify his sensations, and develop some adequate form of speech. He is not a mere recorder. He is an interpreter. He neither copies nor falsifies the facts of nature. He transmutes them, giving them new beauties and a new meaning drawn from the essence of his own soul. If I have made this fact at all clear with regard to the six artists whom I have tried to explain, the great difference between them should but accent its significance.
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