CHAPTER XIII 



THE WHITE-FACED DECTICUS : THE INSTRU- 

 MENT OF SOUND 



ART has three fields which it may culti- 

 ■* *-vate in the realm of natural objects: 

 form, colour and sound. The sculptor uses 

 form and imitates its perfection in so far as 

 the chisel is able to imitate life. The 

 draughtsman, likewise a copyist, seeks in 

 black and white to give the illusion of relief 

 on a flat surface. To the difficulties of draw- 

 ing the painter adds those of colour, which 

 are no less great. 



An inexhaustible model sits to all three. 

 Rich though the painter's palette be, it will 

 always be inferior to that of reality. Nor 

 will the sculptor's chisel ever exhaust the 

 treasures of the plastic art in nature. Form 

 and colour, beauty of outline and play of 

 light: these are all taught by the contempla- 

 tion of actual things. They are imitated, 



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