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of a dealer or of the public that he paint "like himself".

Of course it also goes without saying that of the people who want to paint ernestly enough to weather the crushing problem of, "who cares?" a fairly large number never get quite close enough to themselves to achieve mastery of a personally adequate mode of expression. These are the people who play about on the periphery of art; the inordinate admirers of other people's work.  They dodge about from on artist's style to another's, never quite understanding just what motivated the originator of the style, just why he had to paint in the way he did.  I think that this tendency is especially prevalent today-- and noticeably among young artists.

There has arisen an academy of abstract painting as narrow and uncompromising as the the classical academy which Cezanne flouted in the last century.  And the especially ironic aspect of this new academy is that it trades in the language and symbols of once [[strikethrough]] , [[/strikethrough]] hotly re-bellious artists.  It has produced a sterile eclecticism which today is stifling the natural expression of many a gifted [[strikethrough]] artist. [[/strikethrough]] painter.