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How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident.
I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.
Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.
It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.
There's lots of fun in this world, after all. And if there isn't, there is in the next. And we're going there, sure.
You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.
Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a criticism. If the birds... →
Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one can... →
How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make painters by... →
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