"An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs."
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"A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made."
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"Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later."
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"The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it."
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"Great riches have sold more men than they have bought."
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"The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own."
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"Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief."
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"Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts."
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"Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back."
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"You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all."
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"Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous."
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"The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love."
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"Money is a great treasure that only increases as you give it away."
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"It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!"
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"One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through."
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"The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature."
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"Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered."
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"It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance."
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"He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'"
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"More dangers have deceived men than forced them."
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