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If a man wants to be an artist, he should never look at pictures.
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The quote gives deliberately extreme advice to anyone who wants to become an artist: avoid looking at other pictures. It suggests that studying existing images might make a person copy them instead of developing an independent way of seeing and making art. Because the quote offers no explanation, its claim reads more like a provocation than a complete rule.
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