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"A lazy person will never grow wealthy."
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Personal Development
"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?"
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"The work is plentiful but the labours are few."
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Personal Development
"If you have never planted, then you cannot expect a great harvest."
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Personal Development
"But hell, you've gotta work with what you've got."
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Personal Development
"Your race against life must yield effort for you to be productive."
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Personal Development
"Planting flowers in a desert is more productive than imparting wisdom to fools."
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Personal Development
"It depends on you, to keep pushing forward until you win or giving in. Always choice the former."
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Personal Development
"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."
Art
"My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know."
Family
"If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide."
Control
"It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible."
Family
"I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time."
Time
"When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see."
Art
"I love very much to draw animals."
Love
"Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward."
Art
"I was for years in the yellow period, you know."
Art
"As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again."
Time
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