The Artist 



the architect, and may feel as much pride as 

 the architect when the one has beautifully 

 set and shown what the other has beautifully 

 built. Broad as is the mental field which 

 the architect may encompass, the landscape- 

 gardener's is still wider, touching the do- 

 mains of natural science and of construc- 

 tional science on the one hand, and the realm 

 of idyllic poetry on the other. Andre 

 says that to master this art one ought almost 

 to be painter and poet as well as architect 

 and gardener. But if one cannot actually be 

 all of these, he may feel all their impulses, 

 and may weave all their moods and inspira- 

 tions into his own peculiar product. 



So truly is this craft an art that there 

 seems, indeed, to be no artistic quality 

 which it may not express. Color and com- 

 position are the landscape-gardener's re- 

 sources as they are the painter's, mass and 

 outline almost as they are the sculptor's. 

 And if he cannot, like the figure-painter 

 and the dramatic poet, represent human 

 emotions, he does more than the landscape- 

 painter who represents some of the things 

 which excite these emotions — he, the crea- 



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