晨读英语美文100篇 Passage 48 The One Way to Become an Artist
 音频下载[点击右键另存为][00:00.86]Passage 48 The One Way to Become an Artist[00:07.43]Pupils in all the schools in this country are now exposed to all kinds of temptations [00:14.10]which blunt their feelings. [00:16.29]I constantly feel discouraged in addressing them [00:20.56]because I know not how to tell them boldly what they ought to do, [00:25.81]when I feel how practically difficult it is for them to do it. [00:31.28]If you paint as you ought, and study as you ought, [00:35.77]depend upon it the public will take no notice of you for a long while. [00:42.55]If you study wrongly, and try to draw the attention of the public upon you, [00:48.02]—supposing you to be clever students—you will get swift reward; [00:53.82]but the reward does not come fast when it is sought wisely; [00:58.74]it is always held aloof for a little while; [01:02.46]the right roads of early life are very quiet ones, [01:06.73]hedged in from nearly all help or praise. [01:10.34]But the wrong roads are noisy, —vociferous everywhere with all kinds of demand upon you for art [01:19.09]which is not properly art at all; [01:21.50]and in the various meetings of modern interests, money is to be made in every way; [01:27.95]but art is to be followed only in one way. [01:32.33]Our Schools of Art are confused by the various teaching and various interests [01:38.46]that are now abroad among us. [01:41.09]Everybody is talking about art, and writing about it, and more or less interested in it; [01:48.85]everybody wants art, and there is not art for everybody, [01:53.89]and few who talk know what they are talking about; [01:58.59]thus students are led in all variable ways, [02:02.97]while there is only one way in which they can make steady progress, [02:08.10]for true art is always and will be always one. [02:13.58]Whatever changes may be made in the customs of society, [02:18.17]whatever new machines we may invent, whatever new manufactures we may supply, [02:25.18]Fine Art must remain what it was two thousand years ago, in the days of Phidias; [02:32.29]two thousand years hence, it will be, in all its principles, [02:37.43]and in all its great effects upon the mind of man, just the same. [02:43.01]Observe this that I say, please, carefully, for I mean it to the very utmost. [02:49.58]There is but one right way of doing any given thing required of an artist; [02:55.70]there may be a hundred wrong, deficient, or mannered ways, [03:00.19]but there is only one complete and right way. |
