. Art life of William Rimmer, sculptor, painter, and physician / Truman Bartlett. . CHAPTER XVII. OBSERVATIONS ON ART AND HE following extracts from the writings of Dr. Rimmer are made witha view to showing, both his ideas concerning art, and the wide rangeover which his thought extended. Many of them are from the note-books of his pupils. Much suggests itself which might be remarkedconcerning them, did they not best speak for themselves. Art can have no existence in any community in which the imaginative art is notrecognized, or in which the foundation principles of an artistic educati
. Art life of William Rimmer, sculptor, painter, and physician / Truman Bartlett. . CHAPTER XVII. OBSERVATIONS ON ART AND HE following extracts from the writings of Dr. Rimmer are made witha view to showing, both his ideas concerning art, and the wide rangeover which his thought extended. Many of them are from the note-books of his pupils. Much suggests itself which might be remarkedconcerning them, did they not best speak for themselves. Art can have no existence in any community in which the imaginative art is notrecognized, or in which the foundation principles of an artistic education are notsufficiently axiomatic to give direction to an artists aims in sound and discriminatingcriticism. To describe mere forms, or imitate mere color, requires no other than mechanicalskill, and gratifies no other than a visual want, the sense of form and the sense of colorbeing among the commonest of human attributes ; no people being so rude as not, atsome time, to have given proof of the possession of these faculties. Art is a science, so far as the use of its material is concerned, and so far as itsmethods and prin
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