Strother, don't be an artist.

It means beggary.

Your life depends upon people who know nothing of your art and care nothing for you.

A house dog lives better, and the very sensitiveness that stimulates an artist to work keeps him alive to suffering."* * Prime, p.

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In 1835 Morse received an appointment to the teaching staff of New York University and moved his workshop to a room in the University building in Washington Square.