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• Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.
• As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with…
• You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
• Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.
• We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.
• Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the…
• Hang on the walls of your mind the memory of your successes. Take counsel of your strength, not your weakness. Think of…
• The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
• The world is divided into two classes - invalids and nurses.
• Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.
• If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king…
• Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.

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