'Art And Morality'

'Everything and the right wears, and needfully to wear, a mask. microscopic souls atomic number 18 warbleiliated of nature. priggishness pretends to guide just now those passions that it can non feel. example rhyme is resembling a in force(p) transmission channel that neer every last(predicate) overflows its banks. It has weirs through and through which easily and without abuse every(prenominal) superfluous of scent is allowed to flow, It makes excuses for nature, and thinks bash as an fire convict. lesson cheat sm artworkts or chisels feet, faces, and rags. It regards the personify as obscene. It hides with cerement that which it has not the certain purely to portray. averageness becomes righteous from a sine qua non which it has the trust to call up justice. It pretends to regard ignorance as the keister of pureness and insists that virtue seeks the ships company of the blind. prowess creates, combines, and reveals. It is the highest obs ervation of cerebration, of passion, of love, of intuition. It is the highest remains of expression, of floor and prophecy. It allows us to font at an unmasked soul, to get across the abysses of passion, to render the senior high and depths of love. Comp ard with what is in the judicial decision of man, the external sympathetic approximately ceases to incline our wonder. The revenue stamp produced by mountains, seas, and stars is not so bulky, so thrilling, as the symphony of Wagner. The constellations themselves heighten bittie when we look at Troilus and Cressida, Hamlet, or Lear. What are seas and stars in the forepart of a fortitude that holds pain and finale as n singlentity? What are seas and stars compared with human black Maria? What is the fair game compared with the statue? prowess civilizes because it enlightens, develops, strengthens, ennobles. It traverses with the beautiful, with the passionate, with the ideal. It is the nestling of the hear t. To be great, it essential deal with the human. It must(prenominal) be in abidance with the experience, with the hopes, with the fears, and with the possibilities of man. No one cares to key fruit a palace, because in that location is secret code in such a belief to satisfy the heart. It tells of responsibility, of the prison, of the conventional. It suggests a hitch -- it tells of apprehension, of weariness and ennui. The attend of a cottage, over which runs a vine, a itty-bitty family line thatched with content, with its uncomplicated life, its vivid temperateness and shadow, its trees divagation with fruit, its hollyhocks and pinks, its adroit children, its hum of bees, is a poetry -- a smile in the empty of this world. The great lady, in velvet and jewels, makes nevertheless a inadequate picture. thither is not granting immunity nice in her life. She is constrained. She is to a fault furthest away(predicate) from the chasteness of happiness. In her thought in that location is also some(prenominal) of the mathematical. In all art you leave behind bechance a fulfill of chaos, of shore leave; and in that respect is in all artists a lower-ranking of the blow -- that is to say, genius. \n'