In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster.
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Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
It is true I am rather taken up with dress; but as to feathers, every one wears them, and it would seem extraordinary if I did not.
Feathers predate birds.
Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur, even. They're so beautiful, and nature uses such amazing colors.
I'm one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers.
Flight without feathers is not easy.
A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting.
Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.
I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.
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