Part 7 (1/2)

There I worked with oing over everything again, I called up within ures desired for the completion of the coness, and envisaged it, and had found where each thing was to be, I had to return to Paris to ask for nature's authorisation and make sure of my advance Nature justified me, and, as she is kind to those who approach her reverentially, gave race without stint

_Puvis de Chavannes_

LXXIX

I wish to tell you, Francisco d'Ollanda, of an exceedingly great beauty in this science of ours, of which perhaps you are aware, and which, I think, you consider the highest, nale for in painting, is to do the ith a great amount of labour and study in such a way that it may afterwards appear, however much it was laboured, to have been done almost quickly and alh it was not And this is a very excellent beauty At tis are done with little work in the way I have said, but very seldom; most are done by dint of hard work and appear to have been done very quickly

_Michael Angelo_

METHODS OF WORK

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Every successful work is rapidly performed; quickness is only execrable when it is ele

To him who knows not the burden of process--the attributes that are to claim attention with every epocha of the performance--all attempt at swiftness will be mere pretence

_Edward Calvert_

LxxxI

I aard all you say, but I do not enter into that notion of varying one's plans to keep the public in good hue of weather and effect will always afford variety What if Van der Velde had quitted his sea-pieces, or Ruysdael his waterfalls, or Hobbema his native woods? The world would have lost so many features in art I know that you wish for no h quarters--even froument that _subject_ ht do; perhaps it ht start inea nail; I have driven it so it to attack others, though I may amuse myself, I do not advance beyond the first, while that particular nail stands still Noill be able to do any other different thing equally well; and this is true of Shakespeare, the greatest master of variety

_Constable_

LxxxII

To work on the _Ladye_ Found part of the drapery bad, rubbed it out, heightened the seat she sits on, reat deal, but not finished yet Any one ht be surprised to read hohole days on an old drawing done many years since, and which I have torked over since it was rejected from the Royal Academy in '47, and now under promise of sale to White for 20 But I cannot help it When I see a work going out of my hands, it is but natural, if I see some little defect, that I should try to ive one touch to a head, I give myself three days' work, and spoil it half-a-dozen times over

_Ford Madox Brown_

LxxxIII

In literature as in art the rough sketches of the ar crowd

_A Preault_

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