Modern Painters Volume I (of V)

§ 1. Distinction between the painter's intellectual power and technical knowledge. 8

§ 2. Painting, as such, is nothing more than language. 8

§ 3. "Painter," a term corresponding to "versifier." 9

§ 4. Example in a painting of E. Landseer's. 9

§ 5. Difficulty of fixing an exact limit between language and thought. 9

§ 6. Distinction between decorative and expressive language. 10

§ 7. Instance in the Dutch and early Italian schools. 10

§ 8. Yet there are certain ideas belonging to language itself. 11

§ 9. The definition. 12

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