When Cabanel finally graduated and returned to Paris as a professional painter, he had already received nearly *sixteen years* of focused, intense education on art and art alone.
I’d kill for that. Or, at least sacrifice a goat for it.
You can graduate from medical school and be operating on patients in less time than that artist studied how to paint that angel.
— @ColleenDoran
( in her latest, The Education of an Artist
https://colleendoran.substack.com/p/the-education-of-an-artist )
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113054934032699927