Scan 24
The violin : solo playing, soloists and solos, 1905
4 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 8. See the scan on archive.org.
1in the strictest reciprocity. Their career was one march marked by dignity; they excited admiration, they led the public, they rose. In fact they reigned. But on what spot of Europe can the young artist of our day be placed to meet with circumstances equally favourable? Arm them with the same powers, and yet they do not get the same stimulus and the same reward.
3"The effect of honours and rewards has been insisted on as a necessary incentive to artists; they ought, indeed, to be, they sometimes are, the result of superior powers; but accidental or partial honours cannot create genius. No genuine work ever was or ever can be produced, but for its own sake; if the artist does not conceive to please himself, he never will please the world. Nature herself has set her barriers between age and age, between genius and genius, which no mortal overleaps; all attempts to raise to perfection at once, must prove abortive and nugatory."
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