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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."
"Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause."
"Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith."
"Religion is a distraction from true education."
"The power of reason is thought small in these days, but I remain an unrepentant rationalist. Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife. Therefore every orgy of unreason in the end strengthens the friends of reason, and shows afresh that they are the only true friends of humanity."
"It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition."
"A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason."
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"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."
"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 use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use."
"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."
"My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature."
"After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface."
"I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me."
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