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"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."
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Personal Development
"That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way."
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Personal Development
"Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But sometimes You leave blood on Your instruments."
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Personal Development
"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig."
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Personal Development
"Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice."
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Personal Development
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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Personal Development
"Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."
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Personal Development
"Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be."
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Personal Development
"Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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Personal Development
"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."
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"I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings."
Desire
"I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings."
Will
"Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle."
Experience
"One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil."
Art
"The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings."
Nothing
"Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible."
Chaos
"Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish."
Painting
"Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really."
Language
"I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art."
Art
"The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century."
Painting
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