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the pressing need. He idealizes form, empha- 

 sizes lines, concentrates light and shade and 

 color as it pleases him. He appreciates values 

 and relates them and accentuates them. Color 

 and effect are often greatly scattered in nature, 

 that is nothing, for the whole world of color 

 and beauty is at the artist's disposal and he 

 well knows that color is his highest quality in 

 painting. By it are suggested lines and lights 

 and shadows and perspective and atmosphere — 

 everything. And just here is the power of his 

 individuality. In music harmony is the final 

 word — color-harmony is the consummation of 

 best art. For art is the world as seen by the 

 artist. The artist is everything in art. We do 

 not look for photographic fidelity, we do not 

 want it, we want the artist. He must see all 

 there is to see and feel deepest soul-stirrings 

 and he must create and beautify his ideals. An 

 old Greek poet says, 



"/ seek what's to be sought 

 I learn what's to be taught, 

 1 beg the rest of Heaven." 



Individuality in art, as in everything else, is 

 its power and glory. Some art scholar has 

 written, "Art to Phidias was a matter of form, 



