John Henry Twachtman Quotes
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John Henry Twachtman Art Quotes biography
"You do not know how tempting every opportunity is to me, and how I long to go in quest of fame and fortune. Why should it be either and why can't happiness be complete without either or both?" -- John Henry Twachtman
"In my mind I have finer
pictures than ever before.
Ten thousand pictures come
and go every day and those
are the only complete
pictures painted, pictures
that shall never be polluted
by paint and canvas." John
Henry Twachtman
"What tasks the man did set
himself in the painting of a
white apron with which he
was as much in love as the
face of a person." John
Henry Twachtman
"Winter... that feeling of
quiet and all nature is
hushed to silence." John
Henry Twachtman
"Some day some of you will
become painters, and a few
of you will do distinguished
work, and then the American
public will turn you down
for second and third rate
French painters." John Henry
Twachtman
"A cloudy sky to make it
mysterious and a fog to
increase the mystery. Just
imagine how suggestive
things are..." John Henry
Twachtman
'I feel more and more contented with the isolation of country life. To be isolated is a fine thing and we are all then nearer to nature. 1 can see how necessary it is to live always in the country-at all seasons of the year." -- John Henry Twachtman
"To be
isolated is a fine thing and
we are then nearer to
nature." John Henry
Twachtman
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