“It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression – at least, not in the beginning – and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap.”

—  Antonín Dvořák

"Music in America", Harper's Monthly Magazine, February 1895. http://web.archive.org/20050103002435/homepage.mac.com/rswinter/DirectTestimony/Pages/129.html

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