Excerpt from Art for Life's Sake: An Application of the Principles, of Art to the Ideals and Conduct of Individual, and Collective Life This book is a product of some fifteen years experience as a lecturer on art, especially the art of painting. John Addington Symonds remarked more than a quarter of a century ago, "Painting has lost its hold upon the center of our intellectual activity. It can no longer give form to the ideas that rule the modem world." Since these words were written the ideas have continued to deepen and to expand until they consciously embrace the making-over of society, economically, intellectually, and spiritually, in order to realize more fully the possibilities of democracy. In the evolution of this New Democracy the arts will continue to play their necessary and beautiful part; especially the arts of music and of poetry and the literature and drama of life. But in the presence of forces so varied and mighty as are moving the thought and action of today, no one of the arts nor all of them can ever again supply a form, commensurate with our ideals. They will continue to furnish inspiration and example; but the form, big enough to express the gathering ideal of Human Betterment, can be no less big than Life itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.