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"The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up."
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"I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, "Does this suck?" and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, "I'm on fire, I'm amazing!" and I don't think that's the way to work."
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"Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone."
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"With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!"
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"To work is to feel alive."
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"When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out."
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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."
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"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt."
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"The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections."
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"If you can find your perfect job, create one."
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"I would kiss you, had I the courage."
Love

"Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity."
Taste

"You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real."
Interest

"Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail."
Criticism

"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else."
Painting

"There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug."
Authenticity

"There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another."
Nature

"The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted."
Life

"It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more."
Imagination

"I need to work to feel well."
Work
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