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4th November 1944

      I think that up to a point one can teach anybody to be a good painter. It is not anybody's problem to produce genius; that is up to the gods. But the teaching of painting is not confined to technical facility, or short cuts to the expression of things in an easy way. I truly believe that one can make a man a good painter by training him to have a certain attitude, by helping him to nourish his taste and eliminate bad habits, and by re-creating him into a new environment, where he can breath through new life.

      I don't say this will make a great artist of him, but whatever he has already will not be destroyed by my method of teaching.