Foreword
Tradition and Originality
Tradition is the way that has been discovered to do it right.
It’s not that it is so hard to find out the way to do it right, which is always the simple way. It is just that the ways to do it wrong are so many.
They are all the other ways than the traditional way.
The problem is to find a way to express your ideas within the tradition.
This can be done in a collection of single modifications of the tradition. These modifications usually relate to the individuality of other artists who work in the tradition.
In other words you can do whatever you like in the areas where the traditional artists differ, but you should hew to the areas that traditional artists have in common.
When you discover what all these other ...
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