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7 July 2005: I have a question for those who maintain that art cannot improve, as some absolutely do maintain: if you had an orchard with ten fine appletrees in it to which you added ten fine peachtrees, would you not improve it (as an orchard)? I also wonder how anyone can observe the immprovements in our understanding of the universe and not believe artists can keep up with scientists. Consider just the increase in vocabulary.

I think artists, understandably, dread being forgotten. They will be, nonetheless. They should hope only for what scientists get: the knowledge that part of all their field after they die will be what it is because of them.

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