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"It is only very wise and learned men who have the freedom of a quiet mind, and they do not achieve it by running away from civilisation, and denouncing its culture and its scholarship."

"To suppress the freedom of the arts is not only to cut off knowledge of the actual movements of human feeling but also, and more disastrously, contact with the realities of life."

"[The painter] has somehow to translate an intuition from real objects into a formal and ideal arrangement of colors and shapes, which will still, mysteriously, fix and convey his sense of the unique quality, the magic of these objects in their own private existence. That is to say, he has a job that requires thought, skill, and a lot of experience."