The formative process is tedious and burdensome, clear and obscure, joyful an desponding, discouraging and bewildering to the last degree.

To be patient, observing, reflective, industrious, and sincere; to possess that fortitude which constrains one to perseverance in spite of adversity, wounded pride, revulsion and disgust, and the secret consciousness that each successive endeavor is but a little less fatuous than its predecessor; to carefully train and nurture the eye, the ear, the hand, the heart, the soul; to work and watch and wait for a long time; these are part of the price which one must pay for sound style and the price mounts ever with aspiration.