s; of souls covered with a slag from which have
departed the fires of love and passion and delight. Such
incinerated _aliases_ of their former selves are your
judges, oh, artists!

XV.

Art is a green oasis in an arid and mechanical civilization.
It creates an earthly home for the soul, for those wounded
by the riot of trade, the weariness of labor, the fierce
struggle for gold, and the deadly environment of rushing
travel, blasted pavements and the withering disappointments
of life.

XVI.

Where is that artist that can sway imagination, create
emotion, lift the banner of a high ideal, give the soul a
keener appreciation of beauty, add to the mind, strength and
grace, cause the brain to develop new nerves of feeling and
newer cells of thought, that we may salute him as genius?

XVII.

Art is the emotion within made splendid by imagination that
clothes everything with perfection. Like color it dwells
only in the soul, but the cause of the sensation is without.
In all art, the artist seeks to reproduce the cause of his
ecstasy, that he may communicate to others a similar
delight. He is like a god, he always gives but never
receives, for fame, not money, is his recompense.

XVIII.

Given a soul that can feel sublimely, that can respond to
beauty and feel thrilled with the joy of existence, that can
feel the burden of anguish, that can appreciate the humors
and absurdities of life, and given the power to adequately
represent the knowledge, truth, understanding and conviction
of these impressions in fitting symbols, vitalized by
imagination and emotion, then have we both poet and artist.

XIX.

The soul in such inspired moments takes the form of
sculptured arabesques, or flowers, or resembles the refluent
sea, full of incredible shapes and symbols. It accompanies
the march of thought, the profusive swell of emotion, is
capable of pain and ecstasy, and seeks to be fed with those
delightful symbols of its life which we call art, the most
priceless of earthly possessions.

XX.

Four things are necessary for art, viz.: idea, sentiment,
imagination and manipulative skill. After these comes
prestige, or the applause of t