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Read & copy the quotation
“whatever school you follow, it must be only to learn method, not to imitate result”
- Date
- 1870
Meaning of “whatever school you follow, it must be only…”
Studying earlier schools should teach method without turning the student into an imitator, preserving space for an artistic response rooted in the maker’s own time and nature.
Where does it come from?
Lectures on Art, Lecture VII, Project Gutenberg #19164. The surrounding passage explicitly distinguishes learning from past masters from adopting their results as one’s own.
