"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
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"A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul."
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"Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer."
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"Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor."
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"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."
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"Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom."
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"The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape."
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"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it."
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"Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it."
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"once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up"
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"All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions."
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"As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself."
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"To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul."
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"True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all."
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"Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt."
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"Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will be ill defined; that which is contained within their outlines and their boundaries themselves will be ill-understood unless they are shown against a background of a different tone from themselves."
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"Intellectual passion drives out sensuality."
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"Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth."
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"Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest."
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"O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort."
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