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• Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.
• Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.
• Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
• Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
• Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
• Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
• Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.
• You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
• Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
• Count on big lines to express your ideas.
• You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it…
• Art is an extension of language - an expression of sensations too subtle for words.

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