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Title: The world's opportunities and how to use them
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Guernsey, Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson), 1824-1902
Subjects: Industries
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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h makes a nostril orthe curve of a lip true. And if the artist has not the knowledge of form to appre-ciate how the picture should look when finished, it will quit her hands a stupidand ignorant result. Photograph work requires patience, neatness, talent forobserving and producing form—or, at least, not losing it—and long application.The young artist must have mastered the details of form, use of material, ideasof style, until she knows a great deal about drawing, and then only can shesucceed. Engraving, much more than photography, requires continuous study. Awoman with deft fingers, a quick eye, and intelligence, united to a sense of thepicturesque, may, indeed, be able to earn money from the work she can do insimple line-engraving if she study six hours a day during that time; but unlessshe is willing to give at least three years to her education she had better notadopt this profession. In drawing, also, and learning to design, character and * In Harpers Bazar, February 3, 1883.
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