THE WHAT AND THE HOW IN ART

One of the things always enforcing itself upon the consciousness of the

artist in any sort is the fact that those whom artists work for rarely

care for their work artistically. They care for it morally, personally,

partially. I suspect that criticism itself has rather a muddled

preference for the what over the how, and that it is always haunted by a

philistine question of the material when it should, aesthetically

speaking, be concerned solely with the form.

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