"As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it absolutely."

Doubt, Art, Humility, Failure

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"As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it absolutely."

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"But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better and do they not develop us more than if we kept systematically away from emotions?"

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"In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically."

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"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

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"Well, right now it seems that things are going very badly for me, have been doing so for some considerable time, and may continue to do so well into the future. But it is possible that everything will get better after it has all seemed to go wrong. I am not counting on it, it may never happen, but if there should be a change for the better I should regard that as a gain, I should rejoice, I should say, at last! So there was something after all!"

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"One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it."

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"If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning."

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"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done."

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