It is important that the artist should be highly educated in his own art; but his education is one that is hindered rather than helped by the ordinary processes of socIety which constItute education for the ordinary man. For these processes consist largely in the acquisition of impersonal ideas which obscure what we really are and feel, what we really want, and what really excites our interest. It is of course not the actual information acquired, but the conformity which the accumulation of knowledge is apt to impose, that is harmful.
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