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Charles Webster Hawthorne Quotes: Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.
         

Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.


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Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

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A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.



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By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition.



Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.

Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.





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