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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: looking at the sea that you get
'The multitudinous seas incarnadine,'
nor by looking at Mont Blanc that you find
'And visited all night by troops of stars.'
A kind of ardour of the blood is the mother of all this; and
according as this ardour is swayed by knowledge and seconded by
craft, the art expression flows clear, and significance and charm,
like a moon rising, are born above the barren juggle of mere
symbols.
The painter must study more from nature than the man of words. But
why? Because literature deals with men's business and passions
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