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"It is absurd to look for perfection."
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"Perfect, faultless, in ruins, yes, but perfect,nevertheless."
"The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light."
"Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill."
"Perfection is a paradigm meant to keep us striving and learning and growing. Like a wondrous sunset, perfection may be beyond our reach, but it is within our view and well worth seeking after."
"Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it."
"Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier."
"Perfection is ordinary, imperfection is beauty."
"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
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"Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time."
"I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value."
"I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely."
"Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression."
"At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it."
"When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart."
"I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!"
"I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!"
"It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character."
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