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• The big artist...keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.
• I taught in the Academy from the opening of the schools until I was turned out, a period much longer than I…
• Strain your brain more than your eye... You can copy a thing to a certain limit. Then you must use intellect.
• I have never discovered that the nude could be studied in any way except the way I have adopted. All the muscles…
• I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's Rest in the Lord.…
• The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures…
• Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans... must strike out for…
• In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

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