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"I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me."
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"With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public."
Expression
"We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature."
Nature
"My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me."
Work
"Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones."
Shadow
"For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations."
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"I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs."
Public
"Art is a harmony parallel with nature."
Nature
"Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors."
Nature
"The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings."
Work
"I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting."
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"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."
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"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
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"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."
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"Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age."
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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
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"The golden age is before us, not behind us."
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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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"Not even old age knows how to love death."
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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."
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