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The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment for the balance of my life: the sun will not rise, or set, without my notice and thanks.

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You will see - in the future, I will live by my watercolors.

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Talent! There's no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous hard work in the right way.

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The sun will not rise or set without my notice, and thanks.

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Only once in the last thirty years have I made a duplicate, and that was a watercolor from my oil picture now owned by the Layton Art Gallery, Milwaukee, called 'Hark! the Lark.'

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I wouldn't go across the street to see a Bouguereau. His pictures look false; he does not get the truth of what he wishes to represent. His light is not outdoor light; his works are waxy and artificial. They are extremely near being frauds.

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A man is known by his works. That I have heard at many a funeral.

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If a man wants to be an artist, he must never look at pictures.

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The slavery at Bufford's was too fresh in my recollection to let me care to bind myself again. From the time that I took my nose off that lithographic stone, I have had no master, and never shall have any.

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When will you learn that the time to buy a thing is when you find what you want? If you go back the next year and try to get more, they will try to sell you something else.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: February 24th, 1836

Died: September 29th, 1910

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