MR TOM BROWNE'S "FIRST SUCCESS." (P.T.0.)
I have never had a first success. You may 6mile incredulously if you like, but it is true all the same. Whatever success I have had seems to "me to have come gradually*, by a sort of broadening-out process which is the inevitable result of hard work. It is funny to think of my being interviewed on my first success as an artist when I remember that when I thought seriouelv of taking up drawing as a pro: fession I went to an artist with my work, and after examining it he assured me in most emphatic terms that, whatever else I might become, the one absolutely certain thing was that no human agency— or, fof the matter of that, no agency of any kind — could ever transform mo into an artist-
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Otago Witness, Issue 2808, 8 January 1908, Page 82
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138MR TOM BROWNE'S "FIRST SUCCESS." (P.T.0.) Otago Witness, Issue 2808, 8 January 1908, Page 82
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