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Camille Pissarro

"I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely."

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"I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely."

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"Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went."

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"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"

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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

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"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."

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"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end."

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"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."

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"I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!"
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"Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add."
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"It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character."
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"Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing."
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"I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value."
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