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“I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these. A great chef. A great master of tea. There's powerful kung fu in a well-built house or an eloquent letter, but the limit of your imagination is bones breaking and bullets flying.”

“While I recommend studying the art from artists, Nature is and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible, and from which all excellences must originally flow.”

Art Artist Study Flow Excellence Fountain

Book:Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy

Source: Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy

“An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of good artists in short, who knows in what excellence consists - will, with the assistance of models... be an overmatch for the greatest painter that ever lived who should be debarred such advantages.”

Knows Should Mind Art Artist Principles Taste Models Advantage Excellence Painter Assistance Good Art Good Artist

Book:Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait

Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait

“Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.”

Men World Want Art Stills Book Happiness Joy Lying Artist Time Lost Enjoy Sin Excellence Permanent Immortality Covered Butterfly Flood Monarchy Venice Sinking Great Book Dams Florence

Author:Romare Bearden

“If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.”

Ifs Wells Art Artist Excellence Sake Delight Artist Love

Book:Lectures on Art, and Poems

Source: Lectures on Art, and Poems

“Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon.”