id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 18653 nan The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art .txt text/plain 34646 2200 80 A good painter has two chief objects to paint, namely, man, and the perfect in the works of painting which in itself reproduced the thing A great work of high art is a noble theme treated in a noble manner, picture is real; indeed, the painter's art is the most unreal thing in Love and delight therein are better teachers of the Art of Painting than First of all copy drawings by a good master made by his art from nature Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of good artists, The great artists all painted in _bright_ colours, Drawing is the means employed by art to set down and imitate the light In Japanese painting form and colour are represented without any attempt great works of art and beautiful things, the like whereof never appear ./cache/18653.txt ./txt/18653.txt