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art is never finished, only abandoned

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Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

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The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.

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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

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Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

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What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art

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The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

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As iron rusts when not used, and water gets foul from standing or turns to ice when exposed to cold, so the intellect degenerates without exercise.-Le...more

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He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

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The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

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A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

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One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

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If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he wishes to see monstrosities that are frightful, r...more