In about 1925 I began to be dissatisfied with the painting or the approach to art that I had, and I thought of giving it up because as far as I could see we were just being colour photographers. But then I thought I haven’t come to the end of art, have a look at this modern art that I hated so much. I’d seen both exhibitions in London of the French school of modern art brought to London by Roger Fry, and it rather frightened me. I thought if one of my pictures was hung between two of theirs it’d be wiped right out. But still I didn’t like the pictures at all until I began to think about them in 1925. I thought, well, inquire into this new art. It’s either that or give up. So, I began to inquire and I found it quite interesting, and from then I got a new start. And in my school, I began to teach a new approach to painting, and then, when I went to Melbourne and opened a school there with a partner, Arnold Shore, we taught from 1931 until 1939, I think. And that was when I did most of the teaching that did any good.
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