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If you train yourself in memory work, you fearlessly attack and rearrange your material, for you can retain your original impression.

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.

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

Reserve is strength; overstatement is weakness. No one cares to hear the singer's topmost notes when the voice is 'nigh onto breaking.

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

It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student.

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.

If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years.

In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.

Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.