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In The Years with Ross, James Thurber describes his beginnings as an artist at [The New Yorker]; Thurber says that, having had success at his now-famous quickly sketched freehand drawings, he sat down and did some proper ones, with full attention to detail, shading, perspective, and so on. When he showed them to his colleague E.B. White, White took one look and said, “Don’t do that. If you ever got good you’d be mediocre.”
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In The Years with Ross, James Thurber describes his beginnings as an artist at [The New Yorker]; Thurber says that, having had success at his now-famous quickly sketched freehand drawings, he sat down and did some proper ones, with full attention to detail, shading, perspective, and so on. When he showed them to his colleague E.B. White, White took one look and said, “Don’t do that. If you ever got good you’d be mediocre.”
The new yorker (2005)
Ian frazier from steinberg at the new yorker (2005)
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