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Updated: May 6, 2025
Bismarck appears not to have had the faintest interest in art; the Emperor, while of late disclaiming in all art company his lack of expert knowledge, has always found delight in art's most classical forms. Yet the two men had some deeply marked traits of character in common.
They must see themselves perpetually in an attitude; they must never fail to be effective. They lie for art's sake, without reason or rhyme, from mere devilry, often when it can only harm them. Mendacity then becomes an intellectual exercise, such as the poet's sonneteering to an imaginary lady-love. But the Cordovan very naturally holds himself in no such unflattering estimation.
Also he knew all the dishonor of some of the persons who ruled its society, and he sounded their mean, crafty brains. His heart was filled with indignation at the painful spectacle he himself bodied forth, and he suffered the misfortunes of his people. His poetic manner changed with the new direction taken by his mind. He was no more an artist for art's sake.
Art's conscientious scruples were so strong, that although in point of fact the term of his oath had expired at twelve o'clock in the forenoon, he would not permit himself to taste a drop of spirits until after twelve at night. "It's best," said he to his brother, "to be on the safe side at all events: a few hours is neither one way nor the other.
No man knows till he has made many attempts, how hard to reach is this simplicity of art. And the greater the success, the fewer are the signs of the labour expended. Simplicity is art's perfection.
"Art for art's sake" is a good and defensible phrase, if our definition of art includes the ideal, and not otherwise.
He would be a Reformer, a didactic writer. If we are to have nothing but "Art for Art's sake," that burly body of Harry Fielding's must even go to the wall. The first Beau Didapper of a critic that passes can shove him aside. He preaches like Thackeray; he writes "with a purpose" like Dickens obsolete old authors.
It seems that the eldest paints, and all of them love art for art's sake, as their father taught them to do; and, for all we know, he may make me court painter, and I shall spend the rest of my life at Grasse painting portraits of the Princess Aline, at the age of twenty-two, and at all future ages.
Also we have been told that once insulted he will tear a house down to "get even with you," so I shook Art's hand good-bye, when he started on this Kadiac escapade, and told him to "give 'em hell." After a long time he came back to San Francisco, and this is the story he told me and Art has no guile in his system but is as straight as a bowstring. "We made a false start in going after our bears.
Both Alfonso and Leo tipped their hats, as members of a guild that recognizes art for art's sake, a society that takes cognizance of neither nationality nor sect. Gertrude and George had read Scott's novel in which he tells of the ancient glories of Kenilworth, which dates back to the twelfth century, and to-day is considered the most beautiful ruin in the world.
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