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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of t

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. – Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark, 1915

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