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in future, to its largest degree, anything but what has been, as far as fundamental conditions are fixed. They say that the composer Strauss, with Electra and Salome transgresses true music. Each artists own problem, however, is to him a cosmos, though its realization be but a minor planet in the general system.
John Lafarge, while much uselessly and vaguely lecturing, in his considerations on painting, compared with Da Vinci, recognizes these [[underlined]] new [[/underlined]] points: Color is all, it be new; sincerity; personality. Many other writers, even of mere amateur handbooks, base, not sufficiently [[strikethrough]] un [[/strikethrough]]conscious[[strikethrough]] ly [[/strikethrough]], but in plain words, the students whole problem upon such new, modern, even future factors of the [[underlined]] Personal. Personality [[/underlined]] is [[underlined]] not [[/underlined]] asserted, self satisfied, shortcoming [[underlined]] individuality [[/underlined]], but its effort to perfection, rather missionary, freeing, serving humanity. In this Gogh expresses himself superior to the Latin-French narrower conceptions. The monk may pray, the artist must follow only [[underlined]] one rule: draw and paint [[/underlined]], equally, constantly, separately, thinking, feeling.
I write all these things down until I have clearly set forth, for myself, and settled upon the points of view, and ways of arriving at the Pictorial as I see it.

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