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Painters Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
- "Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture…
- "Do not call yourself an "artist-photographer" and make "artist-painters" and "artist-sculptors" laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call you brother."
- As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not…
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