This was the period of animism and magic, which humanity outgrew only as it learned to disregard its own immediate emotions about Nature, and seek verifiable information about objective physical processes.

Far from contributing to the advance of artisitc insight, he [the academician] hinders it by adding the weight of his example to the inertia against which all progress has to struggle.

A painter who is able to distinguish in the traditions what is essential from what is adventitious has at his command an immensely extended range of values: he can observe his world with an incomparably more penetrating insight than one who has no choice but to see things, in the main, as they have always been seen.

Often no question is definitely raised, but after a lengthy association we wake up some day to find that an infatuation has been outgrown, or an aversion changed into respect.