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Is There a Difference Between a Love of Art and a Passion for Art?
King charles the third prince of wales was a huge supporter of artistic education and artistic endeavour. For example, when we did an exhibition at the bucking palace summer openy to celebrate his seventieth birthday,. it was centred around these three ventures of encouraging art which he had set up. They were all to do with just encouraging and facilitating, i suppose, is the word. And i think that means, i wouldn't have thought a kind of golden age of george the fourth just saying, i wonder wa every dutch painter that comes up for sale, and i don't care how much it costs. It's not going to happen like that, nor should it.
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