Excerpt from Painters, Pictures and the People This incontrovertible condition at once places a twofold responsibility upon the artist, for, while working primarily to be respected in his profession, he must please a sometimes very fickle public besides. Take some other artistic profession-that of the architect, for instance for contrast; the architect may ignore the public, usually, and produce entirely for the satisfaction of his Single client and the relatively small number of his fellow architects. It is dif ferent with the painter. It is very perplexing, to the artist and public alike, that their two judg ments differ so widely - to the artist, who can not understand what he calls the whims Of the public, and much more to the public, which finds only very few painters to its liking, and then not always those the profession would put on a pedestal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.