“The health of a nation's fine art, or, let us say, of its finest art, depends on there being a few dozen people who have sufficient taste and foresight to buy enough contemporary work to keep the half dozen best contemporary painters and sculptors from starving. In the days of Rembrandt there were scarcely enough people to do this. In fact, the man of genius usually finds the state of a ‘nation's’ art very unhealthy, and for himself in especial.”

— Ezra Pound, Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts p.81