Vulgar words in Since Cézanne (Page 1)
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But should the public be dull and brutish, and hardening the dust of dead movements into what it is pleased to call "tradition," pelt with that word the thing which above all others is to dull brutes disquieting--I mean passionate conviction--the artist, finding himself assailed in the name of tradition, will probably reply, "Damn the tradition."
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The fact is, most of our enthusiasms and antipathies are the bastard offspring of a pure æsthetic sense and a permanent disposition or a transitory mood.