For the practice of any art to thrive, its masters must embrace their responsibility faithfully to transmit to their proteges the tacit knowledge, intuitions, and heuristics they've won through a lifetime of experience.
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In fact, the nurturing of young artists is by no means entirely mysterious. A superficial examination of those who do it well may yield discouragingly little insight into their methods. But that does not mean that no intelligible methods exist.
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Those masters who decline to ponder how best to nurture young artists condemn their own art to a debilitating senescence. They may produce in abundance themselves, but without a posterity capable of appreciating and building on their work, it will inexorably fade and wither.
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