"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
"Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt themselves with the useless conversation of idle people, and debase the intellect from the lofty imaginations in which they are always absorbed."
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Source: As quoted in Speeches & Presentations Unzipped by Lori Rozakis, (p. 71), 2007.
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