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...developed and used it (or rather used and developed it), and partly from the manner in which it has been employed for the last thousand years, Latin has become a kind of monumental language, associated with epitaphs and triennial catalogues. It has ceased to be a natural means of expressing thought to English speaking people. Thousands of persons can express thought in Latin and millions can use quotational tags of it, but only a few ecclesiastics are moved to think in the forms of the language...
...child's go-cart with the motto, anchor impair,- I am still learning. Titian, dying of the plague at ninety-nine, exclaimed sadly, "My God, must I die now, just as I had learned to paint an eye!" Indeed the word learning, which we use to express a result, does by its very form imply an unfinished and unfinishable process. What the judgment requires is range, and this is only acquired by trigonometrical exactness in establishing the position and measuring the relations of isolated points. Moreover, what a man has just learned is not to be called knowledge. It continues...
Unfortunately, Gorgona died young. His work, however, though inferior to that of Titian, perhaps influenced the latter. Calm in mood, dignified in conception, Titian is the embodiment of excellence in painting. He made no attempt to express the inexpressible, but was rather the portrayer of humanity. For ninety-nine years he lived in full possession of his powers, combining a perfect mastery of his art with a wide knowledge of nature. It is generally not permissible to call an artist the best there has been, but if anyone deserves the superlative, it is Titian...
Andrea del Sarto was of the Florentine type, pure and simple. His subjects were always given to him by the church and were ill chosen to express his skill. He was a materialist in his work, and lacking in loftiness of view. If Leonardo da Vinci looked too deep, Andrea hardly looked deep enough, and we find a lack of spirit and feeling in his pictures. As a craftsman, however, he was faultless. The best painter and colorist of them...
...never seems to be able to give the warmth of life to his work. Although in this respect he fails to procure absolute truth, his figures show great force and originality, they are nobly powerful, beautiful in their stern, silent repose and in the candid straightforward convictions which they express...