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We truly appreciate you placing your trust in us as teachers, and we believe in your ability to grow as an artist.
You won't absorb everything the first time you see it—that's normal. Keep revisiting the sections of this course as needed.
Always guide your studies through your passions and interests, and let academic training strengthen your personal voice, let the academic work be a guide to strengthen your voice. 


"I believe that theory should not intervene in such a tyrannical way in the elementary education of artists (it is the eye and the hand that should be exercised in the impressionable years of youth). When our students know how to draw and use the material processes of their art, when they have chosen the genre towards which their tastes and aptitudes lead them, they will feel the need for the special studies that their work requires, and they will do so with great profit. One can always acquire the incidental knowledge which contributes to the production of a work of art, but never.

I insist on this point—will, perseverance, obstinacy—never repair the insufficiency of practice in mature age. And can we imagine an anguish similar to that experienced by the artist who feels the realization of his dream compromised by impotence in execution?

Yes, he will want to learn everything from the beginning and will remain a student all his life; he will undoubtedly become very educated, but he will not reach the end of his art, which is to produce; it will stifle his originality and will not give his imagination time to exercise.

We must not cherish the fantasy of training great men like the Renaissance provided. Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo—these robust caryatids who carried on their giant shoulders the weight of all the science of their time—were the extraordinary products of exceptional circumstances, and known as the result of a mysterious force. However, modern art will also leave names worthy of memory. It will increase the number of those whose memory posterity will preserve: because if the science of our artists is not universal, they at least seek in nature the Beautiful, the Expressive, and the True." - William  Bouguereau

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