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Art, Wealth, and Riches, The Relations of Art to Labour
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Human and Literature Publishing
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Art, Wealth, and Riches

The Relations of Art to Labour

Human and Literature Publishing

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I think the following question is an important one: Which shall art belong to,
wealth or riches? Whose servant shall she be? or rather, Shall she be the
slave of riches, or the friend and helpmate of wealth? Indeed, if I put the
question in another form, and ask: Is art to be limited to a narrow class who
only care for it in a very languid way, or is it to be the solace and pleasure
of the whole people? the question finally comes to this: Are we to have art or
the pretence of art? It is like enough that to many or even most of you the
question will seem of no practical importance. To most people the present
condition of art does seem in the main to be the only condition it could exist
in among cultivated people, and they are content with its present aims and
tendencies. For myself, I am so discontented with the present conditions of
art, and the matter seems to me so serious, that I am forced to try to make
other people share my discontent, and am this evening risking the committal of
a breach of good manners by standing before you, grievance in hand, on an
occasion like this, when everybody present, I feel sure, is full of goodwill
both towards the arts and towards the public. My only excuse is my belief in
the sincerity of your wish to know any serious views that can be taken of a
matter so important. So I will say that the question I have asked, whether art
is to be the helpmate of wealth or the slave of riches, is of great practical
import, if indeed art is important to the human race, which I suppose no one
here will gainsay...
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