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"Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement."
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"We see that every victory in our life depends on our faith."
"Excellence never seeks excuses."
"Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound."
"Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done."
"Don't pay attention to people Who tell you can't do it at lenght. Trusting your own instincts Can lead to what's quintessential. Make their limitation be your strenght. You might as well contradict them And then reach your full potential."
"Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride."
"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!"
"Then, without postponing anything, build a structure that will allow you to transform this vision into reality."
"Don't measure life against time. Measure life by the milestones you have reached."
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"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."
"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 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."
"Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained."
"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."
"Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play."
"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."
"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."
"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!"
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