History of art . ce and certainty there is in his culture,whatever the power of his tradition, the Japanesedecorator considers the visible world and takes counselfrom it with unwearying enthusiasm. He is foreverbending over it, and if he composes from memory soas not to retain anything of the moving form but thestrongest appeal it had made to his mind, he does soonly after having accumulated, like a collector of in-sects and plants, the tiniest details of knowledge ofthat form that he can get from thousands of closestudies, wherein the bird lives again, feather afterfeather, the fish with scal
History of art . ce and certainty there is in his culture,whatever the power of his tradition, the Japanesedecorator considers the visible world and takes counselfrom it with unwearying enthusiasm. He is foreverbending over it, and if he composes from memory soas not to retain anything of the moving form but thestrongest appeal it had made to his mind, he does soonly after having accumulated, like a collector of in-sects and plants, the tiniest details of knowledge ofthat form that he can get from thousands of closestudies, wherein the bird lives again, feather afterfeather, the fish with scale after scale, the leaf withnerve after nerve. IV Never was any people more naturally an artistpeople, never did such a race draw on a field of sensi-bility, of enthusiasm and hope as rich as this in Greece, all the aspects of the universe are gatheredinto a small space—mountains, lakes, forests, andarms of the sea that reach the heart of the land. Asin Greece, an immensity of light glorifies the sea and.
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