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The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.
You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.
I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain that I can do it. It seems... →
It gives a fellow an awful shiver to hear the first shovelful of dirt and gravel rattle down upon the coffin; but after it is covered, it falls... →
Let me give you a few simple rules for learning to draw. First, see of what shape the whole thing is. Next, put in the line that marks the movement... →
Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and... →
Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn it at all. It shows you that there is no... →
Nature is economical. She puts her lights and darks only where she needs them.
Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain.... →
The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his notice.... →
There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has. You want a picture to seize you as forcibly as if a man had... →
What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of his back for his wife and... →
When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists, it must be by employing... →
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