"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"
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"I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours."
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"But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things."
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"...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?"
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"Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives."
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"It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy."
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"I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream."
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"The more you love, the more you suffer."
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"But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will."
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"Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better."
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"Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague."
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"The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting."
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"In spite of everything, I shall rise again"
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"Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul."
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"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well."
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"Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more."
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"I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance."
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"Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes."
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"I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me...a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze."
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"We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it."
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