THE NATION'S CREATORS.
“Tt is not .sufficiently realised that what is important to n nation is what it produces, not what it collects,'’ said .Sir William Llewellyn, the President o! the Royal Acadeipv. “It is a far more vital necessity that the nation and its mtiaicipalii its should encourage living masters to cultivate a living art —the interpretation of oar own times—by giving than commissions to decorate, the great bare spaces of public buddings and by purchasing the best artproductions of the present day. This would be, in a tune when the private patron has almost disappeared, a great boon to artists, and would also providea stimulus to modern art. It would give our descendants an intimate knowledge of the evevy-dav life of our time, and. I hope, give them some cause to think a.s well of use as we do of our forefathers.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1931, Page 5
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144THE NATION'S CREATORS. Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1931, Page 5
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