"Art is unlike trade. A masterpiece cannot be short measure; it is too personal. In conclusion, I would like to remind Mr. Crippen that some (very many, too,) of the greatest living sculptors are Americans. Indeed, no foreigners can give us points on art matters any longer. Of course, the 'good Americans,' whose eyes are always fixed on Paris, (where he is said to go when he dies,) cannot yet perceive what has grown up under his feet in architecture, sculpture, and painting, and, after all, in the making haste to become rich nobody cares."
