With the duckets that I now have safe, I think I will retire at 66 years of age, praise God, in good health.
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Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.
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Talent! There's no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous hard work in the right way.
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You will see - in the future, I will live by my watercolors.
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I wouldn't go across the street to see a Bouguereau. His pictures look false; he does not get the truth of what he wishes to represent. His light is not outdoor light; his works are waxy and artificial. They are extremely near being frauds.
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When will you learn that the time to buy a thing is when you find what you want? If you go back the next year and try to get more, they will try to sell you something else.
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The slavery at Bufford's was too fresh in my recollection to let me care to bind myself again. From the time that I took my nose off that lithographic stone, I have had no master, and never shall have any.
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The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment for the balance of my life: the sun will not rise, or set, without my notice and thanks.
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I don't want a lot of people nosing round my studio and bothering me. I don't want to see them at all. Let the dealers have all that bother.