Joe
That's exactly what it is. Learning how to paint. Learning what art is. Getting life into it instead of abstract ideas.
Mr. Wentworth
Art? But art is beauty! Eternal beauty. You can't change art over night, like a fashion!
Silvia
But that picture's beautiful!
Joe
Art changes as life changes. Art has always changed. If it didn't, why isn't your Japanese art just like Greek art? And Greek art like the Italian?
Mr. Wentworth
Oh, in that way, of course. But all the great masters obey the eternal laws of beauty!