A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c7.16

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‘New worlds of art,’ Mr. Fry writes, have been revealed, and ‘a vast mass of new aesthetic experience lies open’.² ‘It used to happen,’ said Goethe, ‘and still happens to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me; but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it; and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries—to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.’³