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Beauty Is That Little Something That Fills The Whole World, And Is Contained Neither In A Single Straight Nose, A Long Eyelash, Nor A Blue Mountain. Some See It In A Leg Of Mutton, Others In A Compound Fracture; And To Expect Others To Accept One's Own Definition Of It Is As Absurd As To Expect All Humanity To Use The Same Toilet-brush.

There Is Force And Vitality In A First Sketch From Life Which The After-work Rarely Has. You Want A Picture To Seize You As Forcibly As If A Man Had Seized You By The Shoulder! It Should Impress You Like Reality!

I Tell You It's No Joke To Paint A Portrait. I Wonder That I Am Not More Timid When I Begin. I Feel Almost Certain That I Can Do It. It Seems Very Simple. I Don't Think Of The Time That Is Sure To Come When I Almost Despair, When The Whole Thing Seems Hopeless.

It's No Easy Matter To Paint A Background. I Venture To Say That The Old Painters Had More Difficulty With Their Grounds Than With Their Figures. You Know The Story Of Vandyke Brought To Rubens With This Recommendation: 'he Already Knows How To Paint A Background.' 'that Is More Than I Can Do!' Was The Reply.

Let Me Give You A Few Simple Rules For Learning To Draw. First, See Of What Shape The Whole Thing Is. Next, Put In The Line That Marks The Movement Of The Whole. Don't Have More Than One Movement In A Figure; You Can't Patch Parts Together. Simple Lines; Then Simple Values. Establish The Fact Of The Whole. Is It Square, Oblong, Cube, Or What Is It?