Art Out-of-Doors 



added that highest of all intellectual delights, 

 the consciousness of being a creator in the 

 field of art. 



I do not like this use of the words ^' ar- 

 tist " and amateur " into which I have 

 been driven by our lack of clear descriptive 

 terms. Rightly, an artist is anyone who 

 produces good works of art, and no one 

 else, and an amateur is an intelligent lover 

 of art ; and it is a pity that we must twist 

 the words to mean professional and non- 

 professional practitioners of art, irrespective 

 of the merit of their results. I have seen 

 w^ork done by professional artists " in 

 gardening which disgraces alike the dignity 

 of Nature and the dignity of art ; and I 

 have seen very artistic work done by men 

 who have merely labored upon their own 

 domains, and whose indisputable skill will 

 never be at the public's service. 



It has amused and yet distressed me to 

 find that some of these artists-in-private do 

 not know that they are artists at all, and 

 that most of their friends are astonished if 

 the name is given them. They sometimes 



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