Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures

by Henry Rankin Poore

PART III - THE CRITICAL JUDGEMENT OF PICTURES

“With the critic all depends on the right application of his principles in particular cases. And since there are fifty ingenuous critics to one of penetration, it would be a wonder if the applications were in every case with the caution indispensable to an exact adjustment of the scales of art.”—Lessing's Laocöon.