1. Conceive an idea. Then stick to it. Those who hang on are the only ones who amount to anything.
2. You can do anything you please. It’s the way it’s done that makes the difference.
3. A good thing is no better for being done quickly.
LINKS
Wikipedia on Augustus Saint-Gaudens
From The Greater Journey by David McCullough
, Quoted from The Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
8 comments:
nice!
The Greater Journey is an excellent book...not exclusively about artists, but goes into the lives of Morse (who gave up art and invented the elec. telegraph) Sargent, Cassat, Healy and St. Guadens and the paris art scene.
That is marvellous advice. Thanks for posting.
I particulary like the last point.
I'm almost finished that book. It is very inspiring. So wonderful to learn from these talented people's lives. Alice
"A good thing is no better for being done quickly."
heh, tell that to my manager!
But is a good thing any better for being done slowly?
Apparently Van Gogh wrote to Theo....
"... when people say they’re done too quickly you’ll be able to reply that they looked at them too quickly"
A work either holds together or it doesn't, regardless of the amount of time spent.
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