Capitolo 57
pleasure to so deeply be in their debt for education?" And now the
flood of visitors that you/they assembled to the study of Canova started to transfer
their interest to Gibson. Committees after errand was offered him/it,
and he started to earn money faster than him. Its life had
is always simple and frugal--the life of a man that he/she works with tall purposes
and the great ideals: him as soon as he/she now knew as to alter him/it. People that didn't do
understands Gibson it said in his later days that he loved money,
because he did a lot and spent little. Those that you/they knew better it say
rather than he worked a lot for the love of art, and you/he/she could not find a lot
to do with his/her money when he had earned him. He was singly
indifferent to earn; he didn't take care of what he eats or he/she drank; him spent little
on suits and nothing on funs; but he paid his/her workers
liberally or even prodigally; he allowed one of his/her brothers more than him
never expenses on him, and he treated the other with gentleness of uniform
and the generosity. The fact is, Gibson didn't understand money, and when it
poured in on him in the great sums, he simply left him/it in the hands of
friends that paid him/it a very small percentage on him and that him always
considered being very kind to take takes care of him of the annoying stuff on his
account. In the matters of art, Gibson was a great master; in matters of
business, he was not really more than a naïve child.
Strange accidents sometimes happened to the study of Gibson from the curious one
the ignorance of our farmers generally on the subject of art. One day, a
separate and Welsh and rich gentleman called on the sculptor, and
says that, as a devil Welshman, he was anxious to give him/it a
errand. As he spoke, he threw an eye that admires on the group of Gibson of
You psychoanalyze borne by the Winds. Gibson was pleased with his/her admiration, but
rather taken behind when it kindly said the old gentleman, "If You pits
hands away the you Psychoanalyze and puts a quadrant in the place, it would make a capital