There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind pai…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life, p.353
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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life, p.353

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