"We are having wind and rain here, and I am very glad not to be alone. I work from memory on bad days, and that would not do if I were alone."
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"Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and continuous observations. By persistent, I mean not only continuous work, but also not giving up your opinion at the bidding of such and such a person."
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"For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear."
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"My aim in life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life... looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, 'Oh, the pictures I might have made!'"
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"Well, I dare not allow myself any illusions, and I am afraid it may never happen that Father and Mother will really appreciate my art. It is not their fault; we do not see the same things with the same eyes, or have the same thoughts raised in us by them. They will never be able to understand what painting is."
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"The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave behind some souvenir in the shape of drawings and paintings – not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed."
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"I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation"
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"You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as a child? Has everybody who has seen them also loved heath, fields, meadows, woods, and the snow and the rain and the s."
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"Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that in it one conquers by perseverance and not by giving in."
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"I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love."
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"For myself, I declare I don't know anything about it. But the sight of the stars always makes me dream."
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"I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals."
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"Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit."
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"If one were to say but few words, though ones with meaning, one would do better than to say many that were only empty sounds, and just as easy to utter as they were of little use."
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"We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such a blunder."
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"Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility."
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"To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background of the richest, intensest blue that I can contrive, and by this simple combination of the bright head against the rich blue background, I get a mysterious effect, like a star in the depths of an azure sky."
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