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[[strikethrough]] the precedent of London. A studio in which to work and much of the time speak in the Prado studying and copying fragments from the Velasquez portraits. [[/strikethrough]] many of the working hours were spent in the Prado seeing and working. The latter implying copying fragments from the Velasquez canvases.

How blinding instruction can be could not be realized until one tried to see. Evidently the best way of concealing a secret is for someone to explain it [[strikethrough]] to you [[/strikethrough]]. 

In all of our schooling at the Academy the direction was that of acquiring the greatest possible dexterity regardless of context. Later it was to be learned that