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 
work 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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