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73 PhIlIP dACeY Collage Sonnet: Thomas Eakins on Painting Before you paint the sitter, paint the chair. Get things as they are. Make a fat man fat. Why should we copy Greeks? They copied nature. The hand shaped right tells how to shape the foot. Make it better or worse—never compromise. Take an egg, or paper, and paint that shade of white. Good pictures tell you what o’clock it is. Remember, you’re a portraitist of light. An outline of a man is not a man. study math. Know bones. don’t paint when tired. devils sometimes live in colors. Facts and vision. To paint the male or female nude, first attempt a boat running with full sails. Respectability in art appalls. ...

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