“The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.”
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In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
