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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…
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The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat…
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In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.
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Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red,…
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We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence…
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A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily…
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The eye and soul are caressed in the contemplation of form and colour. The subtle changes of colour over a surface -…
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Rest assured that if you work every day at your art, using the materials nearest at hand, you will gradually discover such…
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It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art…
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This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors…
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If you train yourself in memory work, you fearlessly attack and rearrange your material, for you can retain your original impression.
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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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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared…
— Hippocrates
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To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.
— Timothy Leary
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How would you describe the spiritual aroma of your home? The source of this aroma is the relationship between husband and wife.…
— Douglas Wilson
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True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building,…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
— Frances E. Willard
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In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices…
— Epictetus
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I know unless I'm true to myself I couldn't be happy. Too much emphasis is placed today on externals and too little…
— Betty White
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And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals,…
— Mark Strand
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If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know…
— Epictetus
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Pure love of God is our nature, but we are so much diverted, so much distracted by the externals that we've forgotten…
— Radhanath Swami
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The externals are important but I'm not interested in superficiality.
— Kyan Douglas
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