67 The One Way to Become an Artist

名称：67 The One Way to Become an Artist
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晨读英语美文 文化百科
[00:07.43]Pupils in all the schools in this country are now exposed to all kinds of temptations
[00:14.10]which blunt their feelings.
[00:16.29]I constantly feel discouraged in addressing them
[00:20.56]because I know not how to tell them boldly what they ought to do,
[00:25.81]when I feel how practically difficult it is for them to do it.
[00:31.28]If you paint as you ought, and study as you ought,
[00:35.77]depend upon it the public will take no notice of you for a long while.
[00:42.55]If you study wrongly, and try to draw the attention of the public upon you,
[00:48.02]—supposing you to be clever students—you will get swift reward;
[00:53.82]but the reward does not come fast when it is sought wisely;
[00:58.74]it is always held aloof for a little while;
[01:02.46]the right roads of early life are very quiet ones,
[01:06.73]hedged in from nearly all help or praise.
[01:10.34]But the wrong roads are noisy, —vociferous everywhere with all kinds of demand upon you for art
[01:19.09]which is not properly art at all;
[01:21.50]and in the various meetings of modern interests, money is to be made in every way;
[01:27.95]but art is to be followed only in one way.
[01:32.33]Our Schools of Art are confused by the various teaching and various interests
[01:38.46]that are now abroad among us.
[01:41.09]Everybody is talking about art, and writing about it, and more or less interested in it;
[01:48.85]everybody wants art, and there is not art for everybody,
[01:53.89]and few who talk know what they are talking about;
[01:58.59]thus students are led in all variable ways,
[02:02.97]while there is only one way in which they can make steady progress,
[02:08.10]for true art is always and will be always one.
[02:13.58]Whatever changes may be made in the customs of society,
[02:18.17]whatever new machines we may invent, whatever new manufactures we may supply,
[02:25.18]Fine Art must remain what it was two thousand years ago, in the days of Phidias;
[02:32.29]two thousand years hence, it will be, in all its principles,
[02:37.43]and in all its great effects upon the mind of man, just the same.
[02:43.01]Observe this that I say, please, carefully, for I mean it to the very utmost.
[02:49.58]There is but one right way of doing any given thing required of an artist;
[02:55.70]there may be a hundred wrong, deficient, or mannered ways,
[03:00.19]but there is only one complete and right way.