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"The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn."
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"One can find so many pains when the rain is falling."
"The hidden hand of contentment is in the rewards of the gratified. The hidden hand of bliss is in the rewards of the tranquil. The hidden hand of happiness is in the rewards of the elated. The hidden hand of joy is in the rewards of the jubilant."
"Love in fools is better than hate in the wise."
"If you get too close to the sun, you will burn; if you get too far, you will freeze: this is how it is with passion."
"Love is the greatest drug; joy is the strongest medicine; virtue is the noblest remedy; together, they are the greatest therapy."
"Love that hurts is better than hate that tickles."
"One who loves lives a thousand years in one day, one who hates only lives one day in a thousand years."
"Hate spreads in the direction it is blown, but love spreads in all directions."
"The universe acknowledges the value of your tears; for when it rains, it is shedding its own."
"When love enters your heart, hate is given an eviction notice."
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"The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice."
"I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them."
"Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."
"When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't."
"A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art."
"Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen."
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