Grammar of Colouring: Applied to Decorative Painting and the Arts (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Grammar of Colouring: Applied to Decorative Painting and the Arts Wisdom is the presiding attribute of the Divine Architect, and Knowledge is the wisdom of man. - "Knowledge, " Lord Bacon has told us, "is power, " which is another of the prime attributes of the Divinity - and the stupendous achievements of knowledge and power since the time of Bacon have made absolute the truth of an aphorism which has been repeated to satiety. But there is yet a third superlatively Divine attribute, of infinitely more importance to the progress and well-being of man than either knowledge or power, and that is goodness or well-doing, and there remains only for human attainment the fact that true knowledge and power are coincident with goodness to accomplish the original title of man to the resemblance of his Maker. It is this fact that renders goodness so essential to the acquirement of skill, for skill is nothing else than well-doing, which is again coincident with well-being, as goodness is with happiness, and these are the essence and the end of good workmanship, without which human knowledge and power are not merely in vain, but pernicious in every art and practice, and alike fatal to the workman and his work. Every good man and artist has therefore an interest in the conjunction of these prime co-essentials of morals and art, the first requisite condition for which is, that true knowledge must be made accessible ere power can be employed for good. Meritorious therefore is the enterprise of those publishers who supply the world with genuine knowledge in cheap books, and the industrious individual who expends his superfluous earnings in the purchase of knowledge will have made a step towards power, and put himself in the way of becoming a wiser, an abler, a better, and a happier man, while administering to the good of others. 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.