Excerpt from Art Suggestions From the Masters: Selected From the Works of Artists and Other Writers on ArtI have omitted, from Sir Charles Bell's An atomy of Expression, most of the technical measurements and history of the muscles, for these can be found in any hand-book of anatomy, and I have confined myself to his observations on expression and the more subtle and difficult analyses of people and animals which could only come from long study and Observation.There are many authors besides those from whom I have made up this volume, who could as well have been chosen, and that I did not select such men as Lessing, Charles Blanc, Leo nardo da Vinci, or a multitude of others, is from no want of appreciation of their excellence.The group of writers I have here included were nearly contemporary, and they gave attention to many of the same qualities in pictures and sculp ture, though often from different stand-points.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.