To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.
Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker's attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.
There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.
We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press.
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
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