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- The artist reserves the right to remove a blot on the landscape, to change positions of things, to suit his composition, providing only that he…
- Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast.
- The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged - not the critics or the academies. The public is the artist's only patron,…
- Difficulties will assail you only when you lack in concentration and persistence.
- A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in…
- Not only does a lens distort forms, but the ordinary plate makes an unholy mess of colour in its tone relations. Yellow becomes black, and…
- Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of…
- When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end - the manner of…
- The impression of wood-grain... must be considered, not only as regards texture and visibility, but for the occasional possibility of the expression of form. A…
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