The Artist 



content with less than twenty-five per cent. ; 

 often though they may exceed their esti- 

 mates, it is rarely to the amount of fifty per 

 cent., miless the client himself is very seri- 

 ously at fault. Vitruvius thought twenty- 

 five per cent, strict measure for the architect. 

 Modern communities would regard it as hard 

 measure for the client. And so may we not 

 feel that nineteen centuries have improved 

 the architect more than the client, and that 

 it especially behooves the latter to look to his 

 own heart ? 



If you are not a client but a working 

 amateur, then you can plan and begin, re- 

 consider and change, pay and pay again, 

 with no one but yourself to blame. But you 

 should still cultivate your artistic conscience. 

 You should try to plan so carefully that you 

 will not need to change, and so well that 

 you will never grudge the cost. 



The wise Goethe tells you how not to 

 work in one passage of that charming ac- 

 count of a landscape-gardening enterprise 

 which occurs in his Elective Affinities." 

 As a rule, he says, the amateur cares more 



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