“The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.”
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No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.
The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.