"In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself."
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"I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought."
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"I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate."
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"I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting."
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"Conscience is a man's compass."
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"You have first to experience what you want to express."
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"Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed."
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"We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words"
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"Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world."
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"Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me."
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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."
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"I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love. Those photographic portraits wither much sooner than we ourselves do, whereas the painted portrait is a thing which is felt, done with love."
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"What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans."
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"Spring is the fresh green of young corn and the pink blush of blossoms. Autumn contrasts the yellowed foilage with violet hues. Winter is the white of snow against its black forms ... Summer is the contrast of blues and the golden bronze of the corn."
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"There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!"
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"To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones."
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"You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color."
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"The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter mad if he sees with eyes other than theirs"
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"If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what? He studies a single blade of grass."
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"But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gap"
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