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When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

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A sketch will not serve more than one state of mind & will not serve to drink at again & again — in a sketch there is nothing but the one state of mind — that which you were in at the time.

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This appearance of the Evening was... just after a very heavy rain — more rain in the night and very — light wind which continued all the — day following while making – this sketch observed the Moon easing – very beautifully... [in the] due East over the — heavy clouds from which the late showers – had fallen.

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Born: June 11, 1776
Died: March 31, 1837 (aged 60)
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