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"The artist must never trouble himself with what 

 is not worth while in his opinion, no matter how won- 

 derful the same thing may seem to his companions. 

 It is essential for all of us to be absolutely honest — 

 to think that our thought to-day will not be the 

 thought of to-morrow and to express it without any 

 fear as to its ultimate truth or form." 



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I have always loved Nature, and I always have been 

 in the habit of taking a sketch book with me in my 

 trips through the country and along the road. At 

 every turn I would find something new to stimulate 

 my attention until my mind became so full of the 

 things that I had seen that I felt impelled to sit down 

 and to paint them then and there. I would set about 

 my work with the hope that I would get it all and put 

 down everything that I had seen, but it is needless to 

 say that I never succeeded. It was not until I learned 

 that one detail in the entire scene was what had in- 

 terested me that I made any progress at all. I finally 

 came to a point where I would stop and look at a 

 landscape and begin to analyze just what it was that 

 had made me stop at that particular point. And I 

 learned that perhaps it was a little group of trees or 

 the line of a single hill, or perhaps two or three leaves 

 of different colors blended strangely together. You 

 have to mine from a landscape as you mine from a 

 gold mine and reject the hundreds and thousands of 

 things that do not move you — reject the whole mass, 

 in fact, and keep intact and alone the little jewel that 

 you have gleaned from it. 



— Van Bearing Perrine. 



