Unit 4 Amazing artBehind a remarkable scholar one finds，not infrequently，a mediocre man，and behind a mediocre artist quite often a very remarkable man.—Nietzsche在一个卓越的学者身上我们常常看到平庸人的形象，一个平庸的艺术家常常是一个卓越的人物。——尼采Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.—Aristotle艺术是比经验更高形态的知识。——亚里士多德Art may be called complete and perfect when it seems to be nature.—Longinus艺术接近自然时，就称得上是圆满完美的艺术了。——龙基纳Art is the right hand of nature.The latter has only given us being ； the former has made us men.—Schiller艺术是自然的好助手。后者仅给我们生存，前者使我们做人。——席勒A poor artist wanted to enter an important painting competition.One day he took his paints and brushes to a local café to drink his coffee and get inspiration.The district where he lived was full of trees which formed a leafy avenue.As he looked around him ，he noticed how the shadows of the trees were growing longer as time passed.He decided to paint them in the style of the Impressionists.Taking the brushes from his bag，he chose one suitable for painting and began.The painting was completed soon.It looked so real that one could almost smell the flowers that hung from the branches of the trees.Happily he wrote his name at the bottom of the painting and sent it to the competition committee.His painting was given high marks by the judges and he won the admiration of many people as a famous Impressionist painter.Some people like modern art，while others say that is rubbish.But a cleaner who works in the Tate Gallery in London isn't able to tell the difference.The woman，whose name isn't known，mistook a work of art by the German painter Gustav 1Metzger as a bag of rubbish ， ...
