A menudo, la gente reprocha a los escritores y artistas que sólo sean hombres de acción de un modo imperfecto e incompleto. Y sin embargo, es muy normal que así sea. Esa concentración del pensamiento, ese ardor vehemente que caracterizan el temperamento del artista, excluyen a la fuerza las otras cualidades. Para aquellos a quienes viven preocupados por la belleza de la forma no existe ya nada más en el mundo que tenga verdadera importancia. It has constantly been made a subject of reproach against artists and men of letters that they are lacking in wholeness and completeness of nature. As a rule this must necessarily be so. That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance. Yet there are many exceptions to this rule.
A menudo, la gente reprocha a los escritores y artistas que sólo sean hombres de acción de un modo imperfecto e incompleto. Y sin embargo, es muy normal que así sea. Esa concentración del pensamiento, ese ardor vehemente que caracterizan el temperamento del artista, excluyen a la fuerza las otras cualidades. Para aquellos a quienes viven preocupados por la belleza de la forma no existe ya nada más en el mundo que tenga verdadera importancia. It has constantly been made a subject of reproach against artists and men of letters that they are lacking in wholeness and completeness of nature. As a rule this must necessarily be so. That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance. Yet there are many exceptions to this rule.
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