"There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away."
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"All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it."
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"The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express."
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"If you do not act on a suggestion at first, you grow dull to its message."
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"The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial."
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"Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature."
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"I am interested in the size of your intention. It is better to overstate the important than to understate it."
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"If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one."
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"Has your drawing the meaning you saw in the model at first?"
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"Things should all be moving toward the expression of a great idea."
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"The model is not to be copied, but to be realized."
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"Concentrate on a single feature - as, build all toward one eye - make all lines lead toward that eye."
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"The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong."
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"We are not here to do what has already been done."
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"If the artist's will is not strong he will see all kinds of unessential things."
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"Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men."
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"You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you."
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"Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said."
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"A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods."
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"After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art."
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