"I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings."
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"Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone."
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"Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily."
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"Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else."
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"I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream."
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"Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see."
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"I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need."
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"Do not become the slave of your model."
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"I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to give by the actual radiance and vibrancy of our colorings."
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"The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live."
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"The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner."
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"To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. Certainly there is nothing in that of stereoscopic realism, but is it not something that actually exists?"
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"It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things."
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"It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind."
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"To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite."
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"In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint."
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"One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live."
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"As you can see, I am immersing myself in color-I've held back from that until now; and I don't regret it."
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"Surely the true path is to dive deep into nature."
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"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."
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