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interest in the statement to be made should provide its own manner of expression, rather than a mode of expression determining the statement. For facility in painting, for its own sake, is like the cadenza imposed upon the structure of a musical composition to display the dexterity of the musician.

With the end of third year at the Academy my formal training came to an end. From there on it was for me to evaluate my education and apply that part which served my purpose. My training was as brief as seemed reasonable but it later proved that considerably longer time was required to bail out what I had been taught. Any form of instruction must inevitably imply the imposing of the point of view of the teacher upon the student. The greater the teacher, the