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Whilst a Face painter is harassed to death a drapery painter sits & earns 5 or 6 hundered a year & laughs all the while.

— Thomas Gainsborough

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We are all going to Heaven, and Vandyck is of the company.

Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits and starts.

We love a genius for what he leaves and mourn him for what he takes away.

Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation.

One part of a picture ought to be like the first part of a tune, that you guess what follows, and that makes the second part of the tune, and so I'm done..

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