In case you should wish to teach, here is your title of mastership.
You started by buying a small painting, "Krishna and Radha", (at special low price, on the installment plan).
Then, for two years you got me to show you paintings and sculptures, and to talk about them. Your steady interest kept my attention. You were not conscious that eventually you might paint. Neither was I.
One day you said you wanted to draw. I gave you some paper and some simple instruction. Once or twice a week you brought drawings in pen and ink or pencil. They surprised me by their beauty and personal style.
Before a month had passed you wanted to paint! "No, wait a year or so". To quiet you, I gave you a Chinese brush and a bottle of ink. Within a few weeks You produced forty or fifty brush and ink compositions as good or better than I've seen, East or West. Then you bought blue and red ink, and integrated it with the black. I stopped holding you back. You bought oil colors and brushes.
You have produced portraits, still lifes and landscapes, all equally distinguished. Many of your compositions, color schemes, and your vigorous personal style, convince me that you have advanced the frontiers of painting' I declare you a master!
