[Note: for this online edition I have moved the Table of Contents to the beginning of the text.]

THE ENJOYMENT OF ART

BY

CARLETON NOYES

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1903

COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY CARLETON NOYES
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published, March, 1903

To
ROBERT HENRI
AND
VAN D. PERRINE

This day before dawn I ascended a hill and look'd at
the crowded heaven,
And I said to my spirit When we become the enfolders of
those orbs, and the pleasure and knowledge of every
thing in them, shall we be fill'd and satisfied then?
And my spirit said No, we but level that lift to pass and
continue beyond.

WALT WHITMAN

CONTENTS

[Preface]
I.[The Picture and the Man]i
II.[The Work of Art as Symbol]19
III.[The Work of Art as Beautiful]41
IV.[Art and Appreciation]67
V.[The Artist]86