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‘The subjects had, indeed, risen vividly on my mind. As I saw them with the spiritual eye, before I attempted to embody them, they were striking; but my hand would not second my fancy, and in each case it had wrought out but a pale portrait of the thing I had conceived.’

Every artist can relate

‘It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.’

‘left to myself I abandoned myself, and my tears watered the boards.’