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"I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use."
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"I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use."
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"In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period."
"My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature."
"After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface."
"Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world."
"If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary."
"In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people."
"I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions."
"It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method."
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