Pleasure must be found in study.
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.
Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist.