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    A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.

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    As long as you do not hold a balance between your seeing of things and your execution, you will do nothing that is really good.

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    Better gray than garishness.

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    Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue

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    Drawing is the honesty of art.

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    Drawing is the probity of art. To draw does not mean simply to reproduce contours; drawing does not consist merely of line: drawing is also expression, the inner form, the plane, the modeling. See what remains after that.

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    Draw lines - draw a lot of lines

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    Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience.

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    It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint.

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    Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.

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    Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names.

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    The chief consideration for a good painter is to think out the whole of his picture, to have it in his head as a whole... so that he may then execute it with warmth and as if the entire thing were done at the same time.

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    The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and dangerous... they ought to be abolished.

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    There is true color, there is nature without exaggeration, without forced brilliance! He is exact.

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    The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer.

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    To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over my door to the atelier, I would write: School of drawing, and I'm certain that I would create painters.

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    You have to observe flowers in order to find the right tones for the folds of clothes.