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- 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…
- The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end…
- 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,…
- The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide the attention, and…
- Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle…
- An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of…
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