“Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.”
The Writing of Fiction (1925), ch. I
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“Art is just fraud. You just have to do something nobody else has done before.”
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“A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.”

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Packer v. Packer [1954] P. 15 at 22.
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