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p.5 of Nov 19 '00 [[?]]

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Presently a little man, but great came forward to meet me. Saying he knew all about me. (Mr Millet had told him). We sat down on a curved Grecian sofa. Directly in front of us, a beautiful picture lay on an easel waiting to be admired. "That little work represents three years [[strikethrough]] work [[/strikethrough]] labor: I have done it over and over many times." Beside it was a picture produced in 1862. "When I did that work years ago I thought [[strikethrough]] I [[/strikethrough]] it was very good; it was my best; but see how I have improved merely by practice."

He is sketching all the time. Showed me some beautiful examples of precious drawings in lead pencil. 

"Now, he said, "you can only learn to draw through continual labor. A man will always remain secondary if he rests a moment. If you see a head you like, insist on having it sit to you. Hire them and in time your work will be absolute in drawing."

"We are all students." What we are when doing our best, or why at times we do work that is ahead of other attempts, we cannot explain. But we all desire to do; to reach; and to do always best work and therefore this desire is master over us, is "Our Master".