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"Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing."
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"It is absurd to look for perfection."
Perfection
"Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing."
People
"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."
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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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Personal Development
"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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Personal Development
"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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