"It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character."

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"It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character."

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"I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value."

Art

"When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart."

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"Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time."

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"God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists."

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"Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression."

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"Paint the essential character of things."

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"At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it."

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"Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing."

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"It is absurd to look for perfection."

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"Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add."

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