"Nathaniel Hawthorne" by George Healy |
And so the world goes on! Fashion changes. The beautiful of yesterday is the grotesque of today. What matters it? Each generation as it comes to life does its best, struggles, suffers, hopes, or despairs. It adds its little stone to the big edifice which is ever being built. The little stone is lost among other, forgotten, overlooked, but it has helped nevertheless to make the wall solid and beautiful. And that surely is something."
To be continued
(Excerpts from "Reminiscences of a Portrait Painter" by G. P. A. Healy.)
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