Show SO dreadfully CANDID woe of th writer or araut who B dodou writa oh how your candid riena shakes his bead dovec your last novel or play or whatever it is says all the year round you are not dog nearly such good work as you did two years ago and he mutters about decaying powers and writing yourself out till like aenry II 11 you groan who will rid me of this man perhaps you fancy you can paint in hanging critics and dealers are not the most savage lions in your path if you happen to be blessed with a candid friend the worst of it is the man is a friend and will do you a good turn if he can of course without much trouble to himself also to a certain extant he knows what be is talking about so that you are bound to have some respect for his opinion he begins by gently prancing around your work rather in the manner of the commencement of a sioux war dance you grow anxious and losing your h ad in a moment of temporary aberration you ask his opinion whoops youve got it your shadows are opaque and your lights pasty your drawing is weak and your technique oad your color is crude and the whole thing out of tone and at the end sum and substance of it all is that if ie the candid friend painted as badly as you do he would never touch a brush again aa long as he lived hope I 1 hurt you old fellow but you would ask my candid opinion so I 1 was bound to give it to you be ays dont ruin your digestive organs with pills and purgatives purga tives take simmons liver regulator Begu lator |