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See what you can do with your daring with color and your ignorance mixed with it.

Swing a bigger brush - you don't know what you're missing.

There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be. Put things down while you feel that joy.

We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets.

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

Paint what you see, not what you know.

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so.

In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself.

Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.

If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.

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

Have as much fun as you can and don't feel that the edge of your canvas confines you - let your vision go right on.

Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly.

Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts.

The successful painter is continually painting still life.

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

Spend a lifetime in hard work with a humble mind.

The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.

Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.

Each day has its own individuality of color.

To see things simply is the hardest thing in the world.

It is so much better to make a big thing out of a little subject than to make a little thing out of a big one.

Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked - start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost.

The mechanics of putting one spot of color next to another, that is the fundamental thing.