Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Address Delivered at the Distribution of Prizes to Students of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art on Feb. 21, 1894
As to my generalizations, I can only say, first, that, in order to have a living school of Art, the public in general must be interested in Art; it must be a part of their lives; something which the can no more do without than water or must not be able to plead poverty or necessit as we do now, as an excuse for ugliness or dirt. I we raise a building, whether it be palace, factory, or cottage, it must be a thingwell understood th at it must be sightly: if a railway has to be run from one place to another, it must be taken for granted that the minimum of destruction of natural beauty must be incurred, even if that should increase the ex; pense of the line largely; disfiguringwaste of coal, pits or manufactories must be got rid of, whatever the costmaybe; and so on. And, mind you, all this.
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