Your room--everything.
RICHARD
But you see, uncle, my work--
UNCLE RICHARD
I hope you will give up your art, but if you must paint I will provide you
a room for it. Do you know how many rooms there are in this house,
Richard?
RICHARD
Really, Uncle Richard, I thank you, but--
UNCLE RICHARD
Don't mention it. And of course you can see to its proper arrangement
yourself.
RICHARD
I had no idea of this when I came and--but you see, it's not only the
studio an artist requires, it's atmosphere, the atmosphere of enthusiasm
and feeling. You might as well give a business man a brand new office
equipment and turn him loose on the Sahara desert as to shut a painter up
in a town like this and expect him to create. Artists need atmosphere just
as business men need banks. It's the meeting of like forces that makes
anything really go.
UNCLE RICHARD
But we are not wholly barbarous here, Richard. _This_, for example, and no
first-class New England city lacks culture.
RICHARD
I suppose there's no use explaining, but what first-class New England
cities regard as _culture_ your real artist avoids as he would avoid
poison.
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