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have the stamp of personality. 

Then style is born. [[strikethrough]] Then [[/strikethrough]] And style is one's own if it has come in this way, [[strikethrough]] then [[/strikethrough]] it is not borrowed from some one else. 

[[strikethrough]] I like to write the creative faculty of the spectator to go along with me [[/strikethrough]] 
I [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] am glad if the laywall who sees my pictures can also use his creative faculty in contemplation and follow the spirit of my work,

I like To set myself limitations - such limitations in my chosen method as may further a right expression of the mood that started me off.

Subject is merely a point of departure, or of arrival, as one chooses. To make an argument of the relative merits of objective and non-objective subjects, of American scene or what not, is To put The emphasis where it does not belong. Suppose you do begin or end with objects - painting is not to describe objects. Great painting, is greatly abstract, whatever the subject, and expresses an inner value.