Believe That Time Is Going To Help

Most Of Us Live For The Critic, And He Lives On Us. He Doesn't Sacrifice Himself. He Gets So Much A Line For Writing A Criticism. If The Birds Should Read The Newspapers, They Would All Take To Changing Their Notes. The Parrots Would Exchange With The Nightingales, And What A Farce It Would Be!

When An Artist Leaves His Work To Amuse People, He Loses His Time And Their Respect. If People Are To Be Amused By Artists, It Must Be By Employing Them In Their Legitimate Occupation.

The Artist Is An Interpreter Of Nature. People Learn To Love Nature Through Pictures. To The Artist, Nothing Is In Vain; Nothing Beneath His Notice. If He Is Great Enough, He Will Exalt Every Subject Which He Treats.

I Tell You It's No Joke To Paint A Portrait. I Wonder That I Am Not More Timid When I Begin. I Feel Almost Certain That I Can Do It. It Seems Very Simple. I Don't Think Of The Time That Is Sure To Come When I Almost Despair, When The Whole Thing Seems Hopeless.

Compare Constantly, Lines And Angles... Hold Looking-glass Before Your Model And Your Drawing. Take A Second's Glance Only, And See If The Impression Be The Same. If It Be Not, Ask, 'what Is The Difference?