An artist's touches are sometimes no more articulate than the barking of a dog who would call attention to something without exactly knowing what. This is as it should be, and he is a great artist who can be depended on not to bark at nothing.


Inarticulate Touches - The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912) - Part IX - A Painter's Views on Painting

Samuel Butler Quotes

An artist's touches are sometimes no more articulate than the barking of a dog who would call attention to something without exactly knowing what....

An artist's touches are sometimes no more articulate than the barking of a dog who would call attention to something without exactly knowing what....

An artist's touches are sometimes no more articulate than the barking of a dog who would call attention to something without exactly knowing what....

An artist's touches are sometimes no more articulate than the barking of a dog who would call attention to something without exactly knowing what....