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THERE are those who exhibit at the Royal Academy, and those who do not : there are those who visit the Royal Academy, and those who do not. Once the doors of the Summer Exhibition are opened, those who do either are of present importance and mutually dependent. The interplay of artist and visitor makes each new show a fresh adventure for anyone who is neither too ignorant to have acquired that sense nor so bored as to have lost it. Ignorant may seem a harsh word to use, but it is not unkindly meant. One cannot find intellectual adventure in that which one does not understand, but there is adventure in the effort necessary to understanding.
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HOPWOOD, A. THE ROYAL ACADEMY, 1947. Nature 159, 764–765 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159764a0
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