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The practical businessman thinks most of us dreamers. He thinks the artist a dreamer. He says: "The artist is not a practical man." It is practical to pay fifty thousand dollars for the painting of a dead man but it is not practical to make the painting--it is practical to buy the evidence of another man's growth, but it is not practical to do the kind of work by which men grow. He does not want the all-around man: he wants the specialist. But the specialist that is worth while is always the round man.

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There is a line--a perfectly clear one, it seems to me--that we can draw on the machine, and that is the line where the machine ceases to be a tool. No matter how costly, therefore, or complicated the tool is, so long as it is a tool with which a man expresses himself, it is an advantage and a benefit to that man. The moment it ceases to be that, the moment it becomes a thing which does the thinking, into which the unthinking man feeds the material we (must) reject it.