Preferences in Art, Life, and Literature (Classic Reprint) Paperback -

My first desire has been, by presenting my views upon Art and its connection with life, in various forms, and by recording in connected sequence the critical opinions expressed during many years upon English and Foreign painting, to enable the public to judge whether these views and criticisms be substantially just or no, and whether time has not, so far at all events, justified my words. Not even the bitterest critic - and some critics are very bitter - can feel more keenly than myself the imperfections of temper, haste, and form which have so frequently dis figured my periodical writing. Nor can any one resent more than I deplore the apparent indifference and scorn with which Ithave approached and censured work which has always taken labour and thought, and patient, if mis taken, skill to produce. Of old, when I considered that a picture was in a bad style of art, I habitually ignored, if I did not forget, the personal feeling of the artist.

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