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I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important.
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I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realistic art, impressionism and the more decorative compositions of different forms of painting, which took away from the earlier photographic realism that I was doing.
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Worry, about the 'thousand and one' details entailed. My one-track mind has to be relieved of these worries completely or I cannot get started working on my paintings, or even get to sleep at night.
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I don't know just what, but there will have to be some drastic changes made besides cutting down on boating to get my mind more on painting.
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Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines.