THE PROFANITY
OF PAINT

THE PROFANITY
OF PAINT. BY
WILLIAM KIDDIER

LONDON: A. C. FIFIELD,
13, CLIFFORD’S INN, E.C.,
1916

PRINTED BY WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON, LTD.,
PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND

TO LOVERS
OF COLOUR

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PAGE
1.	My Book is True	11
2.	My Friends the Trees	13
3.	The Profanity of Paint	17
4.	The Miserable Pursuit of Knowledge	21
5.	The Gift of Silence	23
6.	The Magic of Words	27
7.	The Personal Note	29
8.	Colour	31
9.	Extravagance	33
10.	Relation	35
11.	Tragedy	39
12.	The Tonic of Genius	41
13.	Critics	43
14.	The Closed Ear	45[10]
15.	The Painter’s Cigarette	47
16.	The People’s Café	51
17.	The Middle-class	53
18.	The Masterpiece	57
19.	Mission	61

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1. My Book is True

MY view-point is the pain

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