“If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.”
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Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
