,
re-enforced by the vibrating music of an organ, which was a part of
the megaphone. These were the passages repeated by the instrument with
a startling splendor of sound:

THE MESSAGE OF THE MEGAPHONE.

I.

To define art is to define life.

II.

Art is a language that describes the souls of things.

III.

Art in nature is the expression of life; in art it is life
itself.

IV.

Art is too subtle a quality to be defined by the formula of
the critic. It is greater than all of the definitions that
have tried to grasp it.

V.

Art is the glowing focus from which radiate thought,
imagination and feeling, gifted with the power of utterance.

VI.

True art is generous, passionate, earnest, vivid,
enthusiastic. So also is the true artist.

VII.

To satisfy the far-reaching longing of the spirit, art makes
things more glorious than they are. It is the perfect
expression of a perfect environment.

VIII.

To mould his symbols with the same life that fills his
conception of the idea is the supreme effort of the artist.

IX.

As nature from the coarse soil produces flowers, so also the
artist from every-day life produces the subtle sweets of
art.

X.

Art that is simply utility is not sufficiently decorative to
delight every nerve of feeling in the soul. To feed these,
many flavors of form and color are necessary, and hence the
necessity of art.

XI.

Where do emotion and imagination begin in art? Where do
spirit and flesh unite in a living creature?

XII.

The artist is a creator. He breathes into dull matter the
breath of art, and it thenceforth contains a living soul.

XIII.

Poetry and art make life splendid without science, which is
the cold investigation of that which was once thrilled with
the passion of life. Invention makes life splendid without
poetry and art. By whom will the glorious union of art and
science be consummated?

XIV.

What is the world we live in? It is for the most part a
collection of souls hidebound with treachery and
selfishnes