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• An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when…
• A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.
• Mine is the horny hand of toil.
• I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.
• Cultivate an ever continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.…
• I do not judge, I only chronicle.
• Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.
• I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a…
• A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light…
• It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.
• Impressionism' was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what…
• The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in…

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