SINCE June 1,1999
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Beauty is everywhere. A lovely
landscape does not appeal only by the agreeable
sensations that it inspires, but by the ideas that it
awakens. The line and the colors do not move you in
themselves, but by the profound meaning that is in
them. In the silhouette of trees, in the line of a
horison, the great landscape painters saw a
meaning--grave or gay, brave or discouraged, peaceful
or troubled--according to their characters. The artest, in representing the universe as he imagines it, formulates his own dreams. In nature he celebrates his own soul. And so he enriches the soul of humanity. For in coloring the material world with his spirit he reveals to his delighted fellow-beings a thousand unsuspected shades of feeling. He discovers for them riches in themselves until then unknown. He gives them new reasons for loving life, new inner lights to guide them. |
