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The Moon and Sixpence (Hardcover)
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The Moon and Sixpence (Hardcover)
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I confess that when first I made acquaintance with Charles
Strickland I never for a moment discerned that there was in him
anything out of the ordinary. Yet now few will be found to deny his
greatness. I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by
the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a
quality which belongs to the place he occupies rather than to the
man; and a change of circum-stances reduces it to very discreet
proportions. The Prime Minister out of office is seen, too often,
to have been but a pompous rhetorician, and the General without an
army is but the tame hero of a market town. The greatness of
Charles Strickland was authentic. It may be that you do not like
his art, but at all events you can hardly refuse it the tribute of
your interest. He disturbs and arrests. The time has passed when he
was an object of ridicule, and it is no longer a mark of
eccentricity to defend or of perversity to extol him. His faults
are accepted as the necessary complement to his merits. It is still
possible to discuss his place in art, and the adulation of his
admirers is perhaps no less capricious than the disparagement of
his detractors; but one thing can never be doubtful, and that is
that he had genius. To my mind the most interesting thing in art is
the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am
willing to excuse a thousand faults. I suppose Velasquez was a
better painter than El Greco, but custom stales one's admiration
for him:
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