METHOD AND INSPIRATION
Picture making is neither like carpentry, a thing to be done entirely by accuracy of measurement and careful construction, writes the art critic, Mr Eric Newtotn, nor is it like the song of the lark, a rapturous, reckless improvisation. Somewhere between the two lie the frontiers of the fine arts, though few artists choose to live . exactly halfway between them. One will incline to the deliberate methods of the carpenter another to the singing bird's rhapsody, but neither can afford to ignore the other. Pushed to extremes, either way leads to boredom. Pure carpentry L lifeless, a chilly, intellectual exercise; pure rhapsody is formless and .eads to empty push and flamboyance. The most satisfying art is found only when the two have been fused in whatever proportion.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23514, 31 May 1938, Page 2
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