Tiffany

No man can attempt the reproduction of any idea within him from a pure motive or love of the idea itself without being in the course of his own regeneration.

The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist’s own spiritual nature and, secondly, to enter as a factor in general civilization. And the increase of these efforts depends on the purity of the artist’s motives in the pursuit of art. Every artist who, without reference to external circumstances, aims truly to represent the ideas and emotions which come to him when in the presence of nature is in process of his own spiritual development and is a benefactor of his race.