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Excerpt from Art and Criticism: Monographs and Studies <p>The appreciative and the creative intellect have certain points in common. No one can ever be taught to see nature, to feel nature, and to express it. The painter of genius will show you how he applies his brush, saying: See how I do it; go and do likewise, and may God help you l And if God does not help you, your painting will not be worth talking about. The really great painters are their own masters; they are men of rare and special temperament, and through this tem perament they look at Nature and see beautiful personal visions such as none have ever before beheld. Artists of this high rank are born at rare intervals in the course of the world's history; they fix their visions in color or in marble, and then disappear forever, carrying away with them the secrets of their mysterious intellectual and visual processes. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.