THE APPRECIATION OF ART
BE SINCERE Be sincere in all forms of Art, and by this 1 mean that if you have nob the power of being creative you sUould be glad that you have the power of being appreciative, but be; so only through your own eyes, writes Sir Seymour Hicks, the celebrated British actor. Don’t admire Rembrandt ; because others do it if you can’t understand him. Be happy in the greater beauties you see, even at the Royal Academy. There is no'disgrace in -it. vAfter all you have the satisfaction of being you, and you have a perfect right to hope ; that'every ;mbderh artist should, get nia deserts. If you delight in an actor that others see Httle to admire • in, go still and continue to be delighted,’ and don’t be ashamed of your ideal. Never look at lif through other men’s spectacles. No false man is -a .happy man, and no man is.Vso'false as,;he,whcf, pretends to like tho. .things that other people say he ought to like- ' v ’. r,
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Evening Star, Issue 22448, 19 September 1936, Page 5
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172THE APPRECIATION OF ART Evening Star, Issue 22448, 19 September 1936, Page 5
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