gwnïa Celfyddyd ddail y ffigysbren, neu ryw ddeunydd arall, yn arffedogau i'w cuddio; canys ni chamgymera'r gwir artist nwyfiant nwydus y cnawd am fwynhad esthetig yr ysbryd; cytuna ef a Shelley,—"All obscenity implies a crime against the spiritual nature of man," ac â J. A. Symonds,—"Civilization only accepts art under the condition of its making for the nobler tendencies of human nature, ac ag Anatole France,—"Il y a chez les hommes un incessant desir, un perpétuel besoin d'orner la vie et les êtres," h.y., Y mae mewn dynion ryw ddymuniad dibaid, rhyw awydd parhaus i addurno bywyd a gwrthrychau."
5. Cyfieithwch a beirniedwch:
(a) Sculptor and painter and poet are indeed bound to pass beyond the model. There is always the subjective ingredient.—J. A. SYMONDS.
(b) Sophocles used to say that he depicted men as they ought to be, Euripedes as they are. Polygnotus painted men better than they are; Panson, worse than they are; Dionysius, as they are.—ARISTOTL.
(c) Everything which man can do in imitation of Nature falls short of the fact, as fact.—J. A. SYMONDS.
(d) The artist does not make things as they are, but as they exist for his consciousness; and all his realistic skill must finally subserve
