Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly (1909 (Heft 27))

FROM “THE CRITIC AS ARTIST”


DREAMER is one who can only find his way by moonlight,
and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest
of the world.
The meaning of any beautiful created thing is, at least,
as much in the soul of him who looks at it as it was in his

soul who wrought it.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to
him non-existent.

The Past is of no importance. The Present is of no importance. It is
with the Future that we have to deal. For the Past is what man should not
have been. The Present is what man ought not to be. The Future is what
artists are.
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot
teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the esthetic critic can under-
stand it.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to
time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde,

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