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"It is absurd to look for perfection."
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"Even if you have achieved everything, there is Perfection, still left to be achieved."
"The only measurement I understand is perfection."
"We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection."
"Perfection is not to be attained, but to be pursued infinitely."
"If you cannot get it all right, don't get it all wrong."
"The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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 regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value."
"Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes."
"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."
"When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart."
"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!"
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