"Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to."
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"If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state."
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"A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?"
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"Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well."
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"Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy."
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"The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness."
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"Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people he painted."
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"Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure."
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"The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea"
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"There are mighty few people who think what they think they think."
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"Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been."
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"The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all."
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"To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back."
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"In great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended."
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"All education must be self-education."
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"A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter."
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"Many things that come into the world are not looked into. The individual says 'My crowd doesn't run that way.' I say, don't run with crowds."
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"Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy."
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"The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You may cite honors and attentions and even money paid, but I would have you note that these were paid a long time after the creator had gone through his struggles."
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"Self-education only produces expressions of self."
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