Words Worth Noting - January 17, 2022

Painter David Wilkie “once related to his friend Constable that when he studied at the Scottish Academy, Graham, the master of it, was accustomed to say to the students, in the words of Reynolds, ‘If you have genius, industry will improve it; if you have none, industry will supply its place.’ ‘So,’ said Wilkie, ‘I was determined to be very industrious, for I knew I had no genius.’”

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