Art and I (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Art and I<br><br>Dedication let me write on anything I chose; you never asked me to eulogise an artistic aunt or a craftsman cousin; you let me be as long-winded as I liked, and you gave me a position on the page that even the vagrant eye could not help alighting upon.<br><br>Enjoyment is a weak word to express the pleasure and consolation I have had in writing these essays. They forced me to dwell on the things that endure, and to keep the flag of Idealism cheerfully flying. By Vasari! What a lot I have written! This book is lengthy, but I could have made it half as long again. You will observe that I have shaped the essays into groups - The Art of Today, The Art of Tomorrow, The Art of Yesterday, Art and Mr. X. I do believe that, according to my strength and vision, I have ranged the field of Art tolerably comprehensively; and if there be those who object to the title of the book - "Art and I" - all I can say in defence is well, that describes it. It is my reaction to our Lady Art. I love her. I have spent much of my life trying to understand and appreciate her, and all I have written here about my adventures is, for better or worse, just a true tale. In other words "Art and I" is the record of Art and myself.<br><br>I beg you, dear Editor, to accept this Dedication, and to believe that he who pens it has found in writing for The Christian Science Monitor (and reading it) a chief solace and satisfaction of his villeggiatura in America.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.