This is shown by those admirable Dutch artists who directed this purely objective perception to the most insignificant objects, and established a lasting monument of their objectivity and spiritual peace in their pictures of still life, which the æsthetic beholder does not look on without emotion; for they present to him the peaceful, still, frame of mind of the artist, free from will, which was needed to contemplate such insignificant things so objectively, to observe them so attentively, and to repeat this perception so intelligently;
Hori erakusten digute herbeheretar bikain haiek, zeinek begiespen objektibo huts hori gauzakirik esanahigabekoenetara zuzentzen baitzuten eta haien objektibitatearen eta espirituaren baretasunaren oroigarri iraunkor bat ezartzen baitzuten beren bodegoietan, zeinak behatzaile estetikoak ez baititu hunkipenik gabe begiesten, zeren artistaren aldarte-egoera lasai, patxadazko, nahimenetik jaregina jartzen baitiote aurrean, horrelako gauza esanguragabeak horrela objektiboki begiesteko, hain arretatsu begiztatu eta begiespen hori hain kontu handiarekin errepikatzeko: