Jacob Collins Quotes

#1. I love painting still lifes because there's a feeling of musical, flowing experience. The drawing doesn't matter as much - what you're really after is a feeling of clarity and beauty.

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#2. Finishing is torture ... There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it.

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#3. You can't go back. I know that. But you can look back.

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#4. Painting figures is the hardest, certainly the most taxing genre, and you have to be the most on your game. If you have significant drawing problems, the figure will fall apart and it will read wrong emotionally.

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#5. The over-reliance on photography holds so many artists back.

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#6. I spend so much time in my studio, which can be very dark, so it can begin to feel as if I'm a mole underground.

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#7. The greatness of life lives within you.

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#8. There are many ways to draw beautifully. It's important to let the drawing be an investigation and sometimes, in order to investigate, you need to go off the path.

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