(G-16) It is the common that is wonderful, and if you let yourselves be put off by
extravagance and rant and what is surprising and momentarily impressive you
will be cheated of the most profound of pleasure.
(G-17) For there are two kinds of artists, said
Murasaki: one who makes trifles to fit the fancy of the passing day, the other who
'strives to give real beauty to the things
which men actually use, and to give to them the shapes which tradition has ordained.'
(G-18) How easy it is, she said, to impress and surprise; 'to paint a raging sea monster
riding a storm' (note 7) -- any toy maker can do that, and be praised to the skies..
(G-19) 'But ordinary hills and rivers, just as they are, houses such as you may see
anywhere, with all their real beauty and harmony of form -- quietly to draw such scenes
as this, or to show what lies behind some intimate hedge that is folded away far from
the world, and thick trees upon some unheroic hill, and all this with befitting care
for composition, proportion, and the like -- such works demand the highest master's
utmost skill and must needs draw the common craftsman into a thousand blunders.' (note 8)
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(G-20) Something of her charm for us is doubtless accidental.
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