It is not enough that the painter should make the spectator feel what he
meant him to feel; he must also make him feel that this feeling was
shared by the painter himself _bona fide_ and without affectation. Of
all the lies a painter can tell the worst is saying that he likes what he
does not like. But the poor wretch seldom knows himself; for the art of
knowing what gives him pleasure has been so neglected that it has been
lost to all but a very few. The old Italians knew well enough what they
liked and were as children in saying it.
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The Position of a Homo Unius Libri