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Home Art Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

Polly, August 15, 2013

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My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I’ve been pursuing all my life.

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Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

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