"If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?"
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"One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result."
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"The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist."
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"Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our soul.....My sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are drawn most strongly to those artists in whom I see most the working of the soul."
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"I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone."
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"Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction."
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"The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed."
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"No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely."
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"If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself."
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"What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do."
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"The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all."
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"The cure for him would be to take a good long look at some potato plants, which have lately had such a deep and distinctive colour and tone, instead of driving himself mad looking at pieces of yellow satin and gold leather."
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"Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough."
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"It is the language of nature to which one has to listen."
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"But on the road that I'm on I must continue; if I do nothing, if I don't study, if I don't keep on trying, then I'm lost, then woe betide me. That's how I see this, to keep on, keep on, that's what's needed."
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"One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it."
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"I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply."
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"To stick to the present and not let it pass without drawing some profit from it, that's what I think duty is. ...let us perservere as far as we can rather today than tomorrow."
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"Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the futility of death, the necessity and purpose of serenity and devotion. He lived serenely, as an artist greater than all other artists, scorning marble and clay and paint, working in the living flesh. In other words, this peerless artist, scarcely conceivable with the blunt instrument of our modern, nervous and obtuse brains, made neither statues nor paintings nor books. He maintained in no uncertain terms that he made ... living men, immortals."
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"Drawing is the root of everything."
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