Show i How a Painter Works I IBy By DR FRANK CRANE A good insight into the way the wheels go round inside the head of a painter has been furnished by Sir John Lavery a world renowned painter of England England Eng Eng- land who is now in thIs country Like every other genius he has no Idea how he produces his works Sometimes those upon which he expends the most energy and trouble are failures sometimes those upon which he spends the least are successes He never can tell I suppose it is that wa way with every worker A preacher often notices that those sermons upon which he he- expends the most study make no Impression while I those addresses which he would call second place are I very successful So much depends upon the Inspiration Inspiration tion of the moment It Is an InspIration after after all that releases the hand and unties all the faculties All the amount of trainIng training train train- Ing and work you put into a matter count for naught unless you have the divine spark Sir John Lavery has no philosophy about the way he does his work lie He just does that's it-that's allI all I have my head all the time in a paint pot he says arid and even when I take it out still for several hours it goes on dripping paint He says he has no time to form general ideas nor nora a critical philosophy As a rule a critic is one who cannot produce and producers are poor critics Critics can tell you ou just how a thing h s they usually do but a producer producer pro pro- I ducer cann cannOt t tell you how he succeeded Into the life or of every man luck somehow forces forces its way Henry Ford owes much to his inventive genIus but buthe buthe he could not have gotten along unless luck had favored fa- fa a- a him It vas yas lu luck k that had largely to do with CalvIn and others in authority That is no detriment to their ability as luck does I you no good unless you have the strength and power B Bit t every successful man looking back over his see career m ny an instance in which opportunity came to him and gave him his chance Sir John Lavery also emphasizes the fact that he has given up UI every pleasure and every distraction and lives rigorously concentrating his whole being upon his work Almost every everyone one who has succeeded has had great ability to work In fact genius might be called the capacity for hard work It is the man who vho keeps on who succeeds the man who vilI not be defeated I Copyright oP rig t 1927 by McClure 1 Newspaper Syndicate |