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The most admirable method is that by which each wash of colour, large or small, is never disturbed. It admits of practically no overpainting, sponging…

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Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.
Appreciation is the breath of life to the creative artist, and in spite of modern conditions, there is enough abroad to sustain…
Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism. Though travel…
Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind.
Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience.
The play of sunlight is amusement enough for a lazy man...
In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must prevail also…
The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on…
When spring is here the sketcher begins to look over his equipment and relishes in anticipation the soothing hours he will spend…
The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.
The artist reserves the right to remove a blot on the landscape, to change positions of things, to suit his composition, providing…
The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation.

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I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of… — Joanna Lumley
Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush. — Peter Murphy
Maketa Groves has a strong, bright lyric gift. Her poems come out of music and are full of music. They bring us… — Diane di Prima
She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck… — Philip Pullman
As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept… — Jeremy Denk
Give yourself permission to get the most out of your life. If you're spending all your time scrubbing corners with a toothbrush,… — Sandra Lee
Gammy used to say, 'Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.' — Betty MacDonald
We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush — Anne Sullivan Macy
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut… — George Orwell
If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk… — Lucy Stone
I've always quite liked the idea of being an archeologist, sort of scrubbing around in the dirt. — Ruth Wilson
I knocked part of my tooth out with a scrubbing brush on stage whilst singing 'Hard Knock Life' in Annie. — Sarah Jessica Parker

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