Some years ago, in conversation with an artist whoseworks, perhaps, alone, in the present day, unite perfectionof drawing with resplendence of color, the writer madesome inquiry respecting the general means by which thislatter quality was most easily to be attained. The reply wasas concise as it was comprehensive-"Know what you haveto do, and do it"-comprehensive, not only as regardedthe branch of art to which it temporarily applied, but asexpressing the great principle of success in every directionof human effort; for I ...
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Some years ago, in conversation with an artist whoseworks, perhaps, alone, in the present day, unite perfectionof drawing with resplendence of color, the writer madesome inquiry respecting the general means by which thislatter quality was most easily to be attained. The reply wasas concise as it was comprehensive-"Know what you haveto do, and do it"-comprehensive, not only as regardedthe branch of art to which it temporarily applied, but asexpressing the great principle of success in every directionof human effort; for I believe that failure is less frequentlyattributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience oflabor, than to a confused understanding of the thing actuallyto be done; and therefore, while it is properly a subjectof ridicule, and sometimes of blame, that men proposeto themselves a perfection of any kind, which reason, temperately consulted, might have shown to be impossiblewith the means at their command, it is a more dangerouserror to permit the consideration of means to interfere withour conception, or, as is not impossible, even hinder ouracknowledgment of goodness and perfection in themselves.
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