Copley Society (Boston, Mass.) · [Boston, Press of G.H. Ellis, etc. · leaf 161
rules and no particular method, pleadedJules Bastien-Lepage; I paint things just as I seethem, sometimes in one fashion, sometimes in an-other, and afterward / hear people say that they arelike Rembrandt or like Clouet. Influence in art isconscious, or unconscious, or subconscious. Who shall,in any… … 164 tier, much, or possibly the whole, of recent art.Strong in the mass, the web of life is spun frominfinitely tiny strands. A gradual or abrupt accretionof coincidences is the groundwork of all progress;and what was yesterday an isolated accident, to-day isan absorbing purpose. And so, to state…
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