Copley Society (Boston, Mass.) · [Boston, Press of G.H. Ellis, etc. · leaf 149
from one fraction ofeach instant to the fraction following. Their con-stant state is not stagnation but vibration. Theirsymbol is a point and not a line. Therefore thepainter needs to catch their infinite transitions withan infinite rapidity; to render, by the limited meansat his command, unlimited… … I swiftness was existent at his birth, though further andassiduous discipline alone can strengthen him to seizeand to retain those evanescent and elusive semblancesin nature. The secret of all realism, all impression-ism proper, is contained in this—the very same whichis unfolded by the early…
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