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must and could, and gloried in it and waited 

 patiently for the world's tardy appreciation. 

 Their works command the market to-day and 

 demand the prizes. It was Art for Art's sake ! 



The artist accomplishes his mission when 

 he communicates himself. His personality is 

 his power. The ultimate effect of all art is 

 spiritual. He who out of his complex world 

 brings in a new harmony is an artist. The 

 supreme life of which everything partakes is 

 beauty. Each artist interprets the world of 

 beauty as he sees it and feels it. No two see 

 it alike. True individuality is originality, orig- 

 inality is power, and power is the artist's covet- 

 able prize. He would have it at the tip of his 

 brush, but he must have it in heart and brain 

 first. Art must feel before it can speak. But 

 power is a cosdy quality and demands all in 

 exchange; many can't afford it and are only 

 fractional artists and poverty-struck at that; 

 others with a mastering hunger of heart for 

 highest ideals, give and give and work and win 

 the goal ! 



The real heart artist knows so much more 

 about nature than the most accurate draughts- 

 man, and is ever sacrificing literal accuracy in 

 composition. He takes out of nature what 

 he will and where he will and groups it to suit 



