Those who desire to become artists, can greatly facilitate their work, if beginning for example with very simple outline decorative designs, and having learned the principles on which they are constructed, they would repeat or revise them to themselves before sleep, resolving to remember them.

The same principle is applicable to all kinds of designs, with the proviso that they be at first very easy.

This is generally a very successful process.
_Fore thought_, or the projection of conception or attention with will, is a marvelous preparation for all kinds of art work.

He who can form the habit of seeing a picture mentally before he paints it, has an incredible advantage, and will spare himself much labor and painting out..