The Man‐Made World
If a man paints the sea, it is not to make you see and feel as a sight of that same ocean would, but to make you see and feel how he, personally, was affected by it; a matter surely of the narrowest importance. The ultra‐masculine artist, extremely sensitive,
necessarily, and full of the natural urge to expression of the sex, uses the medium of art as ingenuously as the partridge‐cock uses his wings in drumming on the log; or the bull moose stamps and bellows; not narrowly as a mate call, but as a form of expression of his personal sensations.
The higher the artist the more human he is, the broader his vision, the more he sees for humanity, and expresses for humanity, and the
less personal, the less ultra‐masculine, is his expression.