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"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."

"We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings."

"A beautiful poem is nothing but a mirror of philosophy through which we can see life's pure beauty."

"Poets create a beautiful blue sky where you can fly with wings of imagination and find yourself again and again."

"The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life."

"A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture."

"Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts."
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"I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain."

"Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones."

"For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations."

"The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it."

"I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me."

"The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings."

"I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing."
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