Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly (1904 (Heft 6))

NEW ART MAXIMS.

THINGS ARE apt to be not so artistic as one thinks.
We must not take things too seriously; we rarely realize how
funny we are when we are serious. After all, it is a wise dispensation
of Providence that even the learned do not really know themselves, else we
might all die of laughter — or from a mortification beyond surgical aid.
New life should be inspired, guided, by the past. Do not let old
traditions and conventions paralyze you — rather paralyze them.
The world is not so gray and bald as some would lead us to suppose,
for it compounds the old productions and uses them as a restorer.
Despite what the poet has sung, the world is not so very much with
many of us till after we have made a strike.

The artist must teach art. What state of artlessness will the world
come to unless the young idea is taught to draw more than balance-sheets
and inferences?

Yes! we need artists with messages; but nowadays we want those
messages prepaid.
Keep your nerve. Everything worth while has not already been said
and done; and we are not dead yet.
Dallett Fuguet.

IN THE STREET.
I WATCHED the gold cloud overhead
Burn down to dull red fire;
The sky's free sweep, as the crowned day sped,
Was my supreme desire.
An urchin scanned the roofs, surprise
Was on his sharp face carved-
Who never had beauty light his eyes
Knows not when he is starved.
Dallett Fuguet

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