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"Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement."
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"Stand tall on the summit after a tedious climb. Take in the remarkable scenery and the exhilaration of accomplishment. But don't pause for long, there are greater mountains to climb while you still possess the drive and capacity to do so."

"A successful person's life is made up of a time when he gets out of bed, and a time he goes to bed; and in-between them is filled up with a time that he makes sure something definitely happened!"

"Don't expect others to hand success to you. Create it - with heart, energy and enterprise - and you'll make it come true."

"Many people do not understand why they cannot do well in their lives, even with a lot of training, using short- term and long term plans and most importantly having a huge potential."

"Great men look greater than yesterday."

"Every man has a need to be great at something."

"What you conquer in your youth is your trophy in adulthood."

"The greater the fruit a tree bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it."

"When you can actually measure your day by how much time is converted into products, then you are a great force on the earth."

"A person can be successful in any sphere that God has called him to."
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"I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers."

"Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space."

"I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones."

"I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality."

"It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!"

"Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life."

"Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained."

"What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art."
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