Excerpt from Sound and Colour: Their Relations, Analogies, and Harmonies Painting, as an Art, may be at least on a par with Music; but Music as a Science, is certainly in advance of the fine Arts, its most essential principles admitting of mathematical expression. This last remark, however, has special reference to harmony, for we are still almost quite ignorant of the philosophy of the representative or allegorical power of music; and design and drawing in the arts, as regulated by precept and principle, are much more intelligible than the essential nature of subject and theme in music. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.