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"The world concerns me only in so far as I owe it a certain debt and duty, so to speak, because I have walked this earth for 30 years, and out of gratitude would like to leave some memento in the form of drawings and paintings-not made to please this school or that, but to express a genuine human feeling."
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"The legacy we leave behind should be better than the legacy we inherited."
"To be remembered, umbrella waits for the rain!"
"Great deeds begin in the mind, extraordinary deeds begin in the heart, and remarkable deeds begin in the soul."
"A son is an unfulfilled man's last attempt to fulfill his unfulfilled dreams."
"Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them."
"Ideas taken and planted into the grave do not germinate."
"If you do not work hard, nothing works."
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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."
"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!"
"One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it."
"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."
"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."
"One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it."
"So what do you want? Does what happens inside show on the outside? There is such a great fire in one's soul, and yet nobody ever comes to warm themselves there, and passersby see nothing but a little smoke coming from the top of the chimney, and go on their way."
"It has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don't know the artistic side of a painting."
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