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• Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be…
• In the first place you must study drawing for at least one year; then you must remain with a master at the…
• This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen,…
• If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not…
• When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter…
• When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find…
• Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I…
• If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you…
• If you set out to copy after one master today and after one tomorrow, you will not acquire the style of either…
• If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy…
• Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the…
• The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And…

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