"Nature did all things well"
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"I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint."
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"Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more."
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"The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the possessing, that makes us happy."
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"I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom."
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"Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes me inside, and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?"
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"Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low."
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"A good sculpture can be rolled downhill without breaking."
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