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It is certainly a most tremendous and unprecedented honor and distinction that I have received from Pittsburgh. Let us hope that it is not too late in my case to be of value to American art in something that I may yet possibly do from this encouragement.

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I don't want a lot of people nosing round my studio and bothering me. I don't want to see them at all. Let the dealers have all that bother.

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I do not care to put out any ideas for pictures. They are too valuable and can be appropriated by any art student, defrauding me out of a possible picture.

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Anything written or printed under a print or picture takes the attention from it and, if it is very black or white in any marked degree, will utterly destroy its beauty.

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With the duckets that I now have safe, I think I will retire at 66 years of age, praise God, in good health.

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Every condition must be favorable, or I do not work and will not.

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Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.

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You can't get along without a knowledge of the principles and rules governing the influence of one color upon another. A mechanic might as well try to get along without tools.

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I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors.

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This making studies and then taking them home to use them is only half right. You get composition, but you lose freshness; you miss the subtle and, to the artist, the finer characteristics of the scene itself.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: February 24th, 1836

Died: September 29th, 1910

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