From a journal entry dated 30 September, 1855:
"It is absolutely essential that at some moment in their careers, artists should learn not to despise everything that does not come from their own inspiration, but to strip themselves of the almost blind fanaticism which prompts us all to imitate the great masters and to swear by them alone."
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"It is absolutely essential that at some moment in their careers, artists should learn not to despise everything that does not come from their own inspiration, but to strip themselves of the almost blind fanaticism which prompts us all to imitate the great masters and to swear by them alone."
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