Joe
There aren't any eternal laws of beauty! There's only the eternal impulse to create. Every artist has to express himself in his own way. What you call the "eternal laws" are merely the particular expressions your own favorite painters happened to work out in their time. If they had lived in another time—
Mr. Wentworth
A master would always be a master. There's no change possible in the vision of the soul.
Silvia
You see, Mr. Wentworth, what I have learned these last two years from living among artists is that the painter with an original vision is always opposed by the schools. That is, at first. But when he wins out, then the schools merely take over his technic and use it as a club to put down the next creator. And so it goes.
Mr. Wentworth
Naturally, the great artist suffers hardship. But if we once admit there are no laws, where are we? Anarchy!
Joe
The laws are contained in the impulses themselves. They come with the vision, not before it! If any one thinks this modern art is just an easy way of painting—