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as the mark of a vital culture. We may expect to see in the years to
come some tension between the artist and authority, the artist
pressing against, while he partly accepts, the constraints that the
regime, or society as a whole, impose upon his personal freedom.
But it was within those constraints that most of the great art of the
past was produced, and it is from within them also that great art
will come in the future.