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It is a curious fact that out-of-door nature is to the beginner an enormously overloaded 'property room.' He sees, for instance, the myriad of leaves…

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A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a…
The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat…
In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.
Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red,…
We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence…
A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily…
The eye and soul are caressed in the contemplation of form and colour. The subtle changes of colour over a surface -…
Rest assured that if you work every day at your art, using the materials nearest at hand, you will gradually discover such…
It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art…
This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors…
If you train yourself in memory work, you fearlessly attack and rearrange your material, for you can retain your original impression.
The underlying principles or fundamentals should be so hidden away by the beauty they are eventually to support, that it would require…

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A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
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The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not… — William Osler
A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned… — Robin G. Collingwood
The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for… — Abraham Lincoln
Two simple principles lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and they may be precipitated into two rules. The first is… — H. L. Mencken
Teach as an old fishing guide takes out a beginner. — Theodore Roethke
If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography. — Edward Weston
The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the… — Jose Raul Capablanca
Every Chess master was once a beginner — Irving Chernev
Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any… — Ray Bradbury

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