The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter. (Willa Cather)

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

Willa Cather

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