Reads tagged with “Harriet Hosmer”

The Best of Brain Pickings 2019

Love, poetry, friendship, solitude, and lots of trees.

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Figuring

A book.

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Harriet Hosmer on Art and Ambition: The World’s First Successful Woman Sculptor on What It Takes to Be a Great Artist

“If one knew but one-half the difficulties an artist has to surmount… the public would be less ready to censure him for his shortcomings or slow advancement. The only remedy I know is patience with perseverance, and these are always sure, with a real honest love for art, to produce something.”

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Reads tagged with “Harriet Hosmer”

Love, poetry, friendship, solitude, and lots of trees.

A book.

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