No Small Dabs Of Colour - You

If You Begin With The Middle-tone And Work Up From It Toward The Darks So That You Deal Last With Your Highest Lights And Darkest Darks, You Avoid False Accents.

Every Time I Paint A Portrait I Lose A Friend.

Mine Is The Horny Hand Of Toil.

A Portrait Is A Painting With Something Wrong With The Mouth.

The Habit Of Breaking Up One's Colour To Make It Brilliant Dates From Further Back Than Impressionism - Couture Advocates It In A Little Book Called 'causeries D'atelier' Written About 1860 - It Is Part Of The Technique Of Impressionism But Used For Quite A Different Reason.