Eye of the Beholder

“pay the taxes willingly and take as much pleasure and vanity in the public works as in other countries people do in their possessions.”

“an island of plenty in an ocean of want”

Everything visible should be brought before the organ of sight.…

the painters of the time, investigators of the newly enlarged visible world.

rampant realization that the world is not—or not only—as it seems to be.

Life seems to dwell in his art

painters should study “the science of art and the art of science”