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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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42. and friends gathering about the piano with the family for jubilant singing and music; awakening on bewitching moonlight nights to find my world bathed in silvery glory; fingers that were ever occupied in shaping things, drawing, embroidery, working. The hours were crammed with a busyness and activities which hardly permitted an extra moment to be left over. In all this scheme of things, however, there was so little energy, incentive or opportunity for drawing - no lessons at school; no drawing teachers without. But the desire to be an artist remained firm, was never lost sight of and grew into an unquenchable longing. I was impatiently looking foreward to instruction in college - and willing to abide the time that was inevitably approaching. Self discipline and an enormous capacity for work are of primary importance to a painter. Constitutionally I was born with a restless energy and a restive spirit and have not been able to acquire the ability or habit of sitting still. It is unwise [?] to be so. Sometimes I question whether my
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42. and friends gathering about the piano with the family for jubilant singing and music; awakening on bewitching moonlight nights to find my world bathed in silvery glory; fingers that were ever occupied in shaping things, drawing, embroidery, working. The hours were crammed with a busyness and activities which hardly permitted an extra moment to be left over. In all this scheme of things, however, there was so little energy, incentive or opportunity for drawing - no lessons at school; no drawing teachers without. But the desire to be an artist remained firm, was never lost sight of and grew into an unquenchable longing. I was impatiently looking foreward to instruction in college - and willing to abide the time that was inevitably approaching. Self discipline and an enormous capacity for work are of primary importance to a painter. Constitutionally I was born with a restless energy and a restive spirit and have not been able to acquire the ability or habit of sitting still. It is unwise [?] to be so. Sometimes I question whether my
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