Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
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A distinction is made between painters who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Personally, I think neither of these methods must be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Both may be used in turn by the same indivi
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I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.
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Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.
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A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
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It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
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