“American art-students,” says Mr. L. Scott Dabo, a writer in
_The Arena_, “make a mistake when they seek an ‘artistic
atmosphere’ in Europe. To go abroad in search of beauty betrays
soul poverty. The American who fails to find beauty in American
landscape or artistic atmosphere among his fellow students, will
never find either abroad, whatever he may induce himself to
think. After the student has been thoroughly formed at home and
merged into the artist, and not before, will he be capable of
appreciating at its true value what the rest of the world has to
offer.”
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