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"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."
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"Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause."
"Man's life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a mooching mystic, but the life of a thinking being-not life by means of force or fraud, but life by means of achievement-not survival at any price, since there's only one price that pays for man's survival: reason."
"Religion is a distraction from true education."
"The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there, And warmly debated the matter; The Orthodox said that it came from the air, And the Heretics said from the platter. They argued it long and they argued it strong, And I hear they are arguing now; But of all the choice spirits who lived in the cheese, Not one of them thought of a cow."
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"If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary."
"In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period."
"In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people."
"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."
"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."
"My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature."
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