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.