If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.
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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.
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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.
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The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
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What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
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No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
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