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- I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, 'That's a pretty little thing,' after I had finished…
- Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.
- A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy.
- The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing…
- There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profits... All this traffic sharpens…
- I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct.…
- Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.
- Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.
- It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory.…
- It seems to me that today, if the artist wishes to be serious - to cut out a little original niche for himself, or at…
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