"Living here will make him feel obligated to us. Seeing you every day, he'll lose the dispassionate distance t

"Living here will make him feel obligated to us. Seeing you every day, he'll lose the dispassionate distance that every artist needs to see his subject clearly! He will hardly understand the virtue of your decision now, but this freedom will do him much good. A flower grown in a greenhouse will wither and perish at the first sign of cold! A weed on the roadside will stand firm through drought and the storm, whatever trial it faces."