How beautiful an old woman's skin is! All those wrinkles! - Thomas Eakins

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Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?

Thomas Eakins

How beautiful an old woman's skin is! All those wrinkles!

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The big artist. . . keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.

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When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.

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In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

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