"Do you think they appreciate Lewis's skies—
Do they care if they're worked up in stipple or wash?
Do you think it's the Art (not the money) they prize?
Simply bosh!"
Outsider.
"No. They judge not by Art—they judge only by fame;
And the artist may starve on his poor pallet-bed;
But their hundreds and thousands they shower on his name
When he's dead!—
"When the two Greatest Masters—Old Varnish and Time—