Letter

 1 Introd  |  casing of masculine egotism:~“Artists are spoiled children and
 2 XXXIII  |      joys.~The question for us artists, is to know if abstinence
 3 XXXV    |     when and how we can. Great artists are often weak also, and
 4 XXXVII  |        understand one another. Artists (who are priests) risk nothing
 5 XCI     |        art? What a quantity of artists there are who are only bourgeois
 6 XCVI    | particularly pleased about it. Artists are spoiled children and
 7 CIV     |  historians. When will they be artists, only artists, but really
 8 CIV     |     will they be artists, only artists, but really artists? Where
 9 CIV     |       only artists, but really artists? Where do you know a criticism?
10 CV      |      as you say, there must be artists, and the artist is too much
11 CCXXXVI |     for nothing: Barbes.~Among artists and literary men, I have
12 CCLXXXVI|     begin at the beginning. We artists have no patience at all.
13 CCCV    | without becoming for all that, artists. In short, I believe that
14 CCCVIII |       and whom I consider real artists, Tourgueneff and Zola. Yet