Chapter CCXXXVI

It takes an artist fifty years to learn to do anything, and fifty years to learn what not to do--and fifty years to sift and find what he simply desires to do--and 300 years to do it, and when it is done neither heaven nor earth much needs it nor heeds it. Well, I'll peg away; I can do nothing else, and wouldn't if I could.

_Burne-Jones._

CCXXXVII

If the Lord lets me live two years longer, I think that I can paint something beautiful.

_Corot at 77._

ARS LONGA

CCXXXVIII

If Heaven would give me ten years more ... if Heaven would give me only five years more ... I might become a really great painter.

_Hokusai._