SILVIA

But that picture's beautiful!

JOE

Art changes as life changes. Art has always changed. If it didn't, why
isn't your Japanese art just like Greek art? And Greek art like the
Italian?

MR. WENTWORTH

Oh, in that way, of course. But all the great masters obey the eternal
laws of beauty!

JOE

There aren't any eternal _laws_ of beauty! There's only the eternal
impulse to create. Every artist has to express himself in his own way.
What you call the "eternal laws" are merely the particular expressions
your own favorite painters happened to work out in their time. If they had
lived in another time--

MR. WENTWORTH

A master would always be a master. There's no change possible in the
vision of the soul.

SILVIA