The Work of George W. Joy

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Excerpt from The Work of George W. Joy: With an Autobiographical Sketch ThirtyOne day when I called on Sir Frederick Burton, he asked me what I was going to paint. I was filled with confusion. I had been living in a land of dreams, and had, I am afraid, little to say for myself. You tell me you are going to paint in oils. I did not ask you What vehicle you were going to use, but what subjects you were intending to paint. To be an artist is to have a calling, an inspiration, a longing desire to paint one thing above everything else in the world. Do you feel a desire to paint the men and women of your own times, as you see them, and become a portrait painter? Or to paint Nature as She surrounds you on all sides in her beauty, and become a landscape painter? Or are you ambitious, and do you want to paint what are called ideal works Well, I could not answer, and if I could have done I Should probably have found it as difficult as to classify and account for some of my actual work as shown in this book. Nothing comes amiss to me, everything gives me pleasure in its production. From year to year my work becomes more fascinating, more dear, more engrossing. On the other hand, I feel more and more its limitations, its disappointing inequalities and shortcomings, not only in the execution, but in the very conception of some of my sincerest efforts after excellence.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.