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Considering the whole picture it may be built up, if exclusively in one direction, of horizontal, vertical, diagonal, curved strokes [[images: a line of 4 rectangular diagrams]] of which each different direction expresses a different effect and state of mind, but carried out systematically looses all expression relapses in monotony and expresses merely its cause an arbitrary mannerism since painting is a free craft. On the other hand a beautiful scene composed of many forms and planes at many different angles if so painted that with each plane the brush follows its direction, would result in a total effect equally unpictorial, weak, lacking purpose, power, simplicity and showing that the painters mind was submissive to reality. i.e. some thing outside of himself and of pictorial. (21