Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions. (Thomas Couture)

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

Thomas Couture

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