"How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth."
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"Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere."
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"Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy."
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"I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I live a longer or shorter time... the world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt toward it, because I have walked on this earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude I want to leave some souvenir."
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"In my view, I am often immensely rich, not in money, but (although just now perhaps not all the time) rich because I have found my metier, something I can devote myself to heart and soul and that gives inspiration and meaning to my life."
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"Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence."
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"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures."
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"... life is too short to do the whole."
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"Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity."
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"The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain indebtedness and duty toward it because I have walked this earth for thirty years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures — not made to please a certain taste in art, but to express a sincere human feeling."
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"How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning."
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"One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music."
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"I wish they would take me as I am."
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"What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf."
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"If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle."
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"I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head."
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"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model."
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"I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly"."
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"We are surrounded by poetry on all sides."
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"Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me."
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