CONCLUSIONFIVE MINUTES
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I hope for you countless little improvements throughout a long and fruitful life.
Art wants you for the long haul. Pace yourself. An athlete is old at thirty-four. Artists are catching their stride at sixty.
There’s a famous anecdote about Anders Zorn. It may be apocryphal. Zorn went to art school eight hours a day, so the story goes. Not enough for this prodigious talent, so he went home and painted for four more. Twelve hours a day: that’s how much dedication Zorn put into his craft.
Good for him, and good for you if you can do it. And you may be the type that can. But, if you’re not . . .
You’ll try it for a week—fail miserably. You’ll give up your dream, convinced you never had it, whatever it is.
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