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Month: November 2020

No thing is beautiful

November 29, 2020 Paul Politis 0

“The real study of an art student is more of a development of that sensitive nature and appreciative imagination with which he was so fully […]

They made their language. You make yours.

November 27, 2020 Paul Politis 0

Quotes from The Art Spirit, by Robert Henri: “The work of the art student is no light matter. Few have the courage and stamina to […]

Ottawa, June 13, 2020

Stones to step on or stones to avoid

November 14, 2020 Paul Politis 0

“Every student should put down in some form or other his findings. All any man can hope to do is to add his fragment to […]

Ottawa, September 18, 2018 (black and white photograph)

Beauty rests in the expression

November 14, 2020 Paul Politis 0

“Artists are sometimes asked, “Why do you paint ugly and not beautiful things?” The questioner rarely hesitates in his judgment of what is beautiful and […]

Ottawa, December 23, 2019 (black and white photograph)

All good drawing or painting is compositional

November 14, 2020 Paul Politis 0

“Here is the model with light on his face, a white collar, a brown coat, black tie, black hair, gray background. I have named enough […]

Chicago, August 27, 2019

The impulse for beauty can force its way through every boundary

November 4, 2020 Paul Politis 0

  “Everything that is beautiful is orderly, and there can be no order unless things are in their right relation to each other. Of this […]

A Clean Well-lighted Place Photoblog

“You do not understand. This is a clean and pleasant café. It is well lighted. The light is very good and also, now, there are shadows of the leaves.”

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    June 23, 2025
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    June 19, 2025
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    June 16, 2025
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    June 12, 2025
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    June 5, 2025
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    Midas touch

    June 2, 2025
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    A man and a fan

    May 29, 2025
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    May 26, 2025

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