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"I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!"
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"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."
"As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before."
"A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion."
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"You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression."
"I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him."
"Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible."
"Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn."
"Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha."
"Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!"
"When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life."
"My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris."
"No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!"
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