The early work of Raphael . sobjective and elements subjective, each being duly controlled, it will bedifficult indeed to say what it is. Let me try to illustrate this by following the successive stages inthe making of an artist, as the process would appear to himself were itconscious and deliberate. The boy begins, as soon as he can look, by taking an interest in thelife he sees in action about him. It is not by objects in themselvesthat his senses are excited ; it is by their movement, their variation,the presage they give of some awakening power within himself. Heis like a young cat. His in
The early work of Raphael . sobjective and elements subjective, each being duly controlled, it will bedifficult indeed to say what it is. Let me try to illustrate this by following the successive stages inthe making of an artist, as the process would appear to himself were itconscious and deliberate. The boy begins, as soon as he can look, by taking an interest in thelife he sees in action about him. It is not by objects in themselvesthat his senses are excited ; it is by their movement, their variation,the presage they give of some awakening power within himself. Heis like a young cat. His indifference to things which give no sign 6 THE ART OF WILLIAM QJJ1LLER ORCHARDSON of life is profound. It is only when they move that he is struck bythe ? notion that possibly they might in some way be made to gratifyhis own passions. The first enjoyment he receives through his outwardinstinct is that of destruction. When he gets old enough to handlethings, the only vent for his desire to assimilate them, to make them part.
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