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First Line: No odds what kind of work you're doing
Last Line: Say.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Criticism & Critics; Paintings And Painters


NO odds what kind of work you're doing, your friends, with scorn your efforts
viewing, will say your wires are crossed; they'll stand around you criticising,

and reprimanding and advising, and make your life a frost. You paint your pump,

and all your neighbors will come to contemplate your labors, and show you where

you're wrong; they'll say your paint is punk in color—it should be gaudier

or duller—and kick the whole day long. If you are wise you let them
chatter—the words of boneheads little matter, they're worth a cent a ton;
and while those words the air are tainting, you keep on painting, painting,
painting, until the pump is done. The man who listens to the spieling of critics

always hits the ceiling, upon some bitter day; be sure you're right—'twas
Davy said it—then go ahead and gain the credit, nor care what neighbors
say.





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