Asher Brown Durand Quotes
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I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.
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Waste not your time on broad sketches in color.
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All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and not the parade of them; and we may say the same of execution.
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The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.
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Let me earnestly recommend...one studio which you may freely enter and receive in liberal measure the most sure and safe instruction...the Studio of Nature.