"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way."
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"There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning."
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"I work even in the middle of the day, in the full sunshine, and I enjoy it like a cicada."
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"I am an artist... It's self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying, 'I know all about it. I've already found it.' As far as I'm concerned, the word means, 'I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.'"
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"Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way."
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"The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up."
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"I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human."
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"I'm now painting with all the elan of a Marseillais eating soup, which won't surprise you when I tell you I'm painting large sunflowers. The idea? To decorate the studio, now there's hope of Gauguin living here. I aim at a dozen panels of sunflowers in the room I've set aside for Gauguin."
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"I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it."
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"I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may."
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"In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically."
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"How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?"
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"It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important."
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"The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others."
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"To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life"
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"One must work and dare if one really wants to live."
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"Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."
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"I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing."
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"But you must love with a sublime , genuine , profound sympathy , with devotion, with intelligence , and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. That will lead to God , that will lead to an unshakeable faith ."
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"There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good."
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