And this brings us back once more to the statement that the chief business of the figure painter, as an artist, is to stimulate the tactile imagination

The proportions of small book to develop further a theme, the adequate treatment of which would require more than the entire space at my command

Satisfied with the crude and unillumined exposition given already, allowing myself this further word only, that I do not mean to imply get pleasure satisfaction

On the contrary, we get much pleasure from composition and perhaps more still from movement, to say nothing of all the possible associative pleasures

I wish to say that unless it satisfies our tactile imagination, a picture will not exert the fascination of an ever-heightened reality exhaust its ideas

And then its power of appealing to our emotions, and its “beauty” will not seem more significant at the thousandth look than at the first.