The elements of art; a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist (1848)
Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808-1889, Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808-1889. American drawing book · London, D. Bogue · leaf 115
o CONCLUSION. Ill The most fruitful source of regret, and almost the only alloy to the enjoyments of the true artist, is the consciousness of want of power to reach that remote perfection, which ever recedes, as liis strengthened perception capacitates him to follow it as his guiding-star : which… … love and devotion to his art burned as warm within him, as when, buoyant with youthful hope and energy, he left his parental home, at Caprese, to enter the school of Gherlandaio — to learn to draw. It was this that had sustained him, and made him what he was ; and, it must be thus that excellence…
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