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"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."
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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it."
"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."
"No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."
"If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason."
"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
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"Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics."
"I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me."
"I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use."
"I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds."
"In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period."
"Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great."
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