for a starting point. "Imagination," he says, "includes conception or simple
apprehension,which enables us to form a notion of those former objects of perception or of
knowledge, out of which we are to make a selection; abstraction, which separates
the selected materials from the qualities and circumstances which are connected
with them in nature; and judgment or taste, which selects the materials and
directs their combination. To these powers we may add that particular habit of
association to which I formerly gave the name of fancy,paintings for sale, as it is this which
presents to our choice all the different materials which are subservient to the
efforts of imagination, and which may therefore be considered as forming the
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(By fancy in this passage, we find on referring to the chapter treating of
it, that nothing more is meant than the rapid occurrence of ideas of sense to
the mind.)
Now, in this definition,art oil painting reproduction, the very point and purpose of all the inquiry is
missed. We are told that judgment or taste "directs the combination." In order
that anything may be directed, an end must be previously determined: What is the
faculty that determines this end? and of what frame and make, how boned and
fleshed, how conceived or seen, is the end itself? Bare judgment, or taste,
cannot approve of what has no existence; and yet by Dugald Stewart's definition
we are left to their catering among a host of conceptions, to produce a
combination which, as they work for, they must see and approve before it exists.
This power of prophecy is the very essence of the whole matter, and it is just
that inexplicable part which the metaphysician misses. modern abstract art oil painting
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