One of the easiest ways to start an argument is to attempt to define art. Never has it been done to the satisfaction of any considerable number of people, although the production of such definitions is so constant, competitive and exciting among artists and critics that it amounts to a perpetual esthetic parlor game. Defined John Ruskin: "Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart go together." "Art," hazards John Galsworthy, "is that imaginative expression of human energy, which through...
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