Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.Robert Henri
It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
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Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.
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Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
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Do whatever you do intensely.
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The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.
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