They are suspect. One is inclined to shake a doubtful head at them.
And the landowner feels it. He knows quite well, though he may not say
so, that the Corot trees, though they do not dwell upon margins, are in
spirit almost as extraterritorial as the rushes. In proof of this he
very often cuts them down, out of the view, once for all. The view is
better, as a view, without them. Though their roots are in his ground
right enough, there is a something about their heads--. But the reason
he gives for wishing them away is merely that they are "thin." A man
does not always say everything.
ELEONORA DUSE
The Italian woman is very near to Nature; so is true drama.
Acting is not to be judged like some other of the arts, and praised for a
"noble convention." Painting, indeed, is not praised amiss with that
word; painting is obviously an art that exists by its convention--the
convention is the art. But far otherwise is it with the art of acting,
where there is no representative material; where, that is, the man is his
own material, and there is nothing between.
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