You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author’s mind.
Paul Gauguin Quotes
Some advice: do not paint too much after nature. Art is an abstraction; derive this abstraction from nature while dreaming before it, and think more of the creation which will result than of nature.
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