"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore."
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"I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn't come as a surprise to you because I am busy painting huge sunflowers."
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"I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers."
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"I dream of painting and then I paint my dream."
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"As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward."
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"An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men."
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"All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a gift to someone else, whether they pay for it or not. The wonder of it is that we cannot get the production of these gifts stopped. Art is life seeking itself. It is our intractable expressions of love for the beauties, ideas and epiphanies we regularly find. I framed the painting. It's now hanging in our den. "I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir."
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"What is done in love is done well."
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"So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world."
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"I never get tired of the blue sky."
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"It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent."
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"Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it."
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"Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures."
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"My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen."
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"The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too"
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"If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning."
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"If you end up falling in love with someone, it's because of them. If you end up hating someone, it's because of you."
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"As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed."
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"Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, 'What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.' Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope."
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"When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars."
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