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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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"It is absurd to look for perfection."
Perfection
"When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart."
Soul
"I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely."
Age
"Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time."
Art
"Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add."
Work
"I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!"
Instinct
"I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value."
Art
"At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it."
Creativity
"Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes."
Mistake
"Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression."
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"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."
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"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."
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"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
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"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."
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"Age merely shows what children we remain."
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"Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age."
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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
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"The golden age is before us, not behind us."
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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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"Not even old age knows how to love death."
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