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Excerpt from How Shall We Paint Our Houses?: A Popular Treatise on the Art of House-Painting: Plain and Decorative; Showing the Nature, Composition and Mode of Production of Paints and Painters' Colors, and Their Proper and Harmonious Combination and Arrangement
If house-painting consisted of merely covering the wood-work of a dwelling with one or more coats of white paint, to speak of it as a fine art, would hardly be justifiable; but so far is such from being the case, that to conduct successfully the business of painting in our cities and larger towns, requires the exercise of those faculties which, in general acceptation, are supposed to distinguish the artist from the mechanic. An eye prompt by nature and education to distinguish the nice gradations of colors and tints - and the faculty so to arrange and dispose them as shall best harmonize them with each other, and with the surroundings - are indispensable requisites in the house-painter of the present day.
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