. Art crafts for amateurs . rt is to forget, or banish for thewhile, all the familiar devices and well-worn ways—todisinfect, as it were, ones mind, and then there is somechance of it acting with freshness, and doing somethingthathas not been done before in quite the same way; for, of course, we all knowthere is nothing newunder the sun. To beones self, to act spon-taneously from onesown initiative, and freefrom self-consciousness,so that one gives ex-pression to what iswithin—ones ego, infact—is to be original, Itake it, and thereforestyle is individuality, theexpression of ones cri
. Art crafts for amateurs . rt is to forget, or banish for thewhile, all the familiar devices and well-worn ways—todisinfect, as it were, ones mind, and then there is somechance of it acting with freshness, and doing somethingthathas not been done before in quite the same way; for, of course, we all knowthere is nothing newunder the sun. To beones self, to act spon-taneously from onesown initiative, and freefrom self-consciousness,so that one gives ex-pression to what iswithin—ones ego, infact—is to be original, Itake it, and thereforestyle is individuality, theexpression of ones critics have cen-sured me for advocatinga doctrine with suchinsistence, because therewill be no style inwork done under such acontrolling idea, theysay. I fail to see what these critics mean, for if a mandoesnt give himself in his work, what does he give ? Thepersonal note is everything, the one quality which makesones work live and interest other people. The fol-lowing of tradition—the being trammelled at the start by. No. 79.—Wood Inlay, by the Pim-lico Class, under the Hon. 7NLA YING.
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