House & Garden 
ROMAN VASE 
AN IMPASSIVE OLYMPIAN 
else. li a man brings 
into existence a thing 
that is beautiful, and 
that is therefore per¬ 
fectly pleasing to the 
eye, that is capable of 
seeing: a thing that is 
instinct with the per¬ 
sonality of its creator 
and therefore appealing 
to the sympathy of 
others: a thing, finally, 
that is powerful to sug¬ 
gest memories and 
fancies, dreams and 
visions and all the phan¬ 
tasmagoria of an un¬ 
hampered soul,—if a 
man does this he is an 
artist, and he has made 
a work of art, whatever 
his methods, his tools, 
his material, and if he 
does not produce this, if 
his work is ugly, or im¬ 
personal, or uninspir¬ 
ing, he is nothing, even 
though he wear a red 
rosette in his button¬ 
hole or writes “ R. A.” 
after his name. 
As 1 said before in the 
first of these casual 
notes, one must contend 
against odds in search¬ 
ing for the desired emo¬ 
tion, the evanescent 
vision, when one con- 
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