If you had begun to paint early, you would have possessed what Ulrich lacks." "Perhaps so.

Besides, his defect is one of those which will vanish with years.

In your school, with zeal and industry...." "He will obtain, you think, what he lacks.

I thought so too! But as I was saying: he is queerly constituted.

What you have admitted to me more than once, the point we have started from in a hundred conversations--he cannot grasp: form is not the essence of art to him." The king shrugged his shoulders and pointed to his forehead; but Moor continued: "Everything he creates must reflect anew, what he experienced at the first sight of the subject.