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"I have sworn to die painting."
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"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else."
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"If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock."
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"A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape."
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"We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes."
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"I have sworn to die painting."
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"My painting does not come from the easel."
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"When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing."
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"Painting is a hobby for me."
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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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"If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens."
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"Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience."
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"I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion."
Age


"People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day."
Soul


"I have sworn to die painting."
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"The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution."
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"Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation."
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"An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all."
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"I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing."
Nothing


"Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones."
Shadow


"The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it."
Nature
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