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"The bigger the 'flat' [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the 'flat' is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work three times over. One simply has to keep on working hard, doesn't he?"

"Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."

"But hell, you've gotta work with what you've got."

"Your race against life must yield effort for you to be productive."

"Planting flowers in a desert is more productive than imparting wisdom to fools."

"It depends on you, to keep pushing forward until you win or giving in. Always choice the former."

"Work while you have strength."
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"In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art."

"It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible."

"Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward."

"Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences."
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