Art as Saga defined it, is that imaginative expression of human energy, which,through technical concretion of feeling and perception, tends to reconcile theindividual with the universal, by exciting in him impersonal emotion. And thegreatest Art is that which excites the greatest impersonal emotion in ahypothecated perfect human being. Homes stated that a true artist, is the onewho has "a clear perception and a firm, bold hand, in distinction from thatimperfect mental vision and uncertain touch which give us the feeble pictures andthe lumpy statues of the mere artisans on canvas or in stone