[ebooks] Planning Matter: Acting with Things by Robert A. Beauregard at Arts-Photography

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Some years ago; in conversation with an artist whose works; perhaps; alone; in the present day; unite perfection of drawing with resplendence of color; the writer made some inquiry respecting the general means by which this latter quality was most easily to be attained. The reply was as concise as it was comprehensivemdash;"Know what you have to do; and do it"mdash;comprehensive; not only as regarded the branch of art to which it temporarily applied; but as expressing the great principle of success in every direction of human effort; for I believe that failure is less frequently attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labor; than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done; and therefore; while it is properly a subject of ridicule; and sometimes of blame; that men propose to themselves a perfection of any kind; which reason; temperately consulted; might have shown to be impossible with the means at their command; it is a more dangerous error to permit the consideration of means to interfere with our conception; or; as is not impossible; even hinder our acknowledgment of goodness and perfection in themselves.