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What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.

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A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.

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We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

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To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows.

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Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts.

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Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red, white, and blue all over.

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You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are conscious living things. A tree seldom if ever encroaches upon the liberty of another tree. It never wastes its growth in unnecessary twistings.

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