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There Is Only One Reason For Art In America, And That Is That The People Of America Learn The Means Of Expressing Themselves In Their Own Time, And Their Own Land.

Genius Is Not A Possession Of The Limited Few, But Exists In Some Degree In Everyone. Where There Is Natural Growth, A Full And Free Play Of Faculties, Genius Will Manifest Itself.

Lines Are Results, Do Not Draw Them For Themselves.

If A Certain Activity, Such As Painting, Becomes The Habitual Mode Of Expression, It May Follow That Taking Up The Painting Materials And Beginning Work With Them Will Act Suggestively And So Presently Evoke A Flight Into The Higher State.

The World Will See Many Fashions Of Art And Most Of The World Will Follow The Fashions And Make None. These Cults - These 'movements' - Are Absolutely Necessary, Or At Any Rate Their Causes Are, For Somewhere In Their Centres Are The Ones Who Bear The Idea, The Ones Who Have Questioned, 'but What Do I Think?' And 'how Shall I Say It Best?