Mine is the horny hand of toil. - John Singer Sargent

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Find the Silver Lining: When things don't work out the way you wish, always look for some positive outcome to the situation working out the way it did. For example, you can always be grateful that things didn't turn out even worse.

John Singer Sargent

Mine is the horny hand of toil.

Hand, Hands, Horny, Toil

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An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.

Artist, Club, Man, Men, Picture, Should Have

Cultivate an ever continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents. Store up in the mind. . . a continuous stream of observations from which to make selections later. Above all things get abroad, see the sunlight and everything that is to be seen.

Groups, Mind, Power, Slight, Sunlight

I do not judge, I only chronicle.

Chronicle, Chronicles, Do Not Judge, Judge, Judging

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

Mouth, Mouths, Portrait, Portraits, Portraiture, Wrong

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

Curiosity, Drawing, Enough, Fresh, Sketches, Sketching

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