"I have the reputation of being a rapid worker, but in reality I am a very steady, slow worker. I make many experiments before I begin, but when I start I go straight away. I work with a belief that the deliberate work is the swiftest... I paint practically all day, according to the work I have in hand... I consider six hours a very good day's work. As for waiting for inspiration I have no faith in it. I am guided by the nature of the task I have in hand. I take the thing as it comes... Waiting for the mood, being unable to control oneself, is the stamp of amateurism. My principle is that one ought always to control oneself."
Frederic Lord Leighton
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