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 If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a 
landscape painter, it is love of read more 
 If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a 
landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves 
you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and 
human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, 
it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that 
move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, 
and the fullness thereof. 
 Well, something must be done for May,
 The time is drawing nigh--
  To figure in the Catalogue,
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 Well, something must be done for May,
 The time is drawing nigh--
  To figure in the Catalogue,
   And woo the public eye.
    Something I must invent and paint;
     But oh my wit is not
      Like one of those kind substantives
       That answer Who and What? 
 A flattering painter, who made it his care
 To draw men as they ought to be, not as they read more 
 A flattering painter, who made it his care
 To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. 
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
I mix them with my brains, sir.
I mix them with my brains, sir.
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
 The only good copies are those which exhibit the defects of bad 
originals.  
 The only good copies are those which exhibit the defects of bad 
originals. 
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure read more
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream
 Hard features every bungler can command:
 To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.  
 Hard features every bungler can command:
 To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.