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and between now and the time I go South I am going out very little as I want to be in good condition to work. I am so ambitious about my work and want so much to succeed in it. It is a continual hard fight. every inch of it and needs all sorts of planning and drudgery but it has many compensations. You know most every things even up somehow. You asked me one time how I would like to have you criticize my pictures when we are married. Well I think I would love it because you would tell me just exactly what you thought about it. You know I am aiming for perhaps the hardest part of the subject that is to paint the strength and power of things as you see them. You know there is the pretty side of art and we see lots of pretty subjects painted. I mean pretty in sort of a small way; but I think that a man and and artist ought to try to paint the majestic and strong side of nature so when people look at a picture, they may say even if they don't like it particularly, that it was painted by a man, so if you look at one of my pictures and say it doesn't impress you or that I ought to be spanked for painting such a weak silly thing. Don't you see that it will do me all the good in the world. You know the best way to criticize is from the view point of the artist if you can get to appreciate it. Its a hard thing to do but when I criticize the