The life, letters and work of Frederic Leighton. Volume I

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If any man should be constantly penetrated with a gift bestowed on him, it is the artist who has realised as his share a genuine love for nature; for his enjoyment, if he puts his gift to usury, increases with the days of his life.
Every man who has received a gift, ought to feel and act as if he was a field in which a seed was planted that others might gather the harvest.
FREDERIC LEIGHTON.
August 1852.