Excerpt from French Folly in Maxims
The public! How frightful the word is! It is much more frightful than the thing itself. For the public is all powerful in favor of or against the mercantile artist who in art sees only commerce. It may, if it wishes, fill the purse of this business man. But the public can do nothing, either for or against the sincere artist whom only love of the true and the beautiful guides, and to whom glory itself is only an accessory aim. This artist depends on his peers, and on posterity, which alone can judge definitely.
We should not let words amaze us. I do not like the famous imprecation against the public which Fernand Desnoyers wrote.
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