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"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."
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"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."

"If a thing which is believed by billions is against the reason and not supported by the science, it is a great honour not to be amongst those billions!"

"If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason."

"If I had been born in the medieval times, my subjective union with God and the Universe would have evoked the rise of another Gnostic religion. But, by the grace of Mother Nature, I am born in an era of Science and Reasoning. Hence, I have dissected my own experience of Absolute Divinity as well as the experiences of all the religious giants in my works, in order to discover the physical truth underneath these apparently supernatural experiences."

"When everybody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!"

"Nourish your reasoning skills my friend, they are the most effective tool you can ever have in the path of progress."

"That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world."
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"I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me."

"In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period."

"I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use."

"If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary."

"If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression."

"I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions."

"Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great."

"The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting."
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