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You're too close to your model.

— Anton Mauve

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Vincent decided then to become a painter and asked his older cousin-in-law Anton Mauve to teach him

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This is how you should hold your palette.

You go outside, light your pipe, whistle a tune and just paint what you come across. (translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)

All my canvases I paint after sketches. (translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)

Heavenly wonderfully beautiful that Wolfhezerland with its stream and pines.. (translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)

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