He looked at his picture with his artistic perception fully alert, and reached that assurance of the perfection, and consequent importance, of his picture which he needed to attain the intensity of effort – excluding all other interests – without which he could not work.
Ahora, mirando el cuadro con ojo de artista, adquiría la certeza absoluta de su perfección y la seguridad de su transcendencia, sentimiento que necesitaba para alcanzar aquella tensión que excluía todo otro interés y sin la cual no le era posible trabajar.