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- Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can…
- The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, a general preparation for whatever the student may afterward choose for more…
- The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a…
- A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an imitator of the…
- One inconvenience... may attend bold and arduous attempts: frequent failure may discourage. This evil, however, is not more pernicious than the slow proficiency which is…
- Perhaps blue, red, and yellow strike the mind more forcibly from there not being any great union between them, as martial music, which is intended…
- No art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from the same stock,…
- If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the…
- From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than the painter himself,…
- A passion for his art, and an eager desire to excel, will more than supply an artist with the place of method.
- Certainly, nothing can be more simple than monotony.
- Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors to little more…
- Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can…
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