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"You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder."
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"The bigger the 'flat' [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the 'flat' is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work three times over. One simply has to keep on working hard, doesn't he?"
"It's not going to be easy, but it's kind of like ripping off a band-aid. Painful for a minute, but it has to be done."
"And certainly both Horses were doing, if not all they could, all they thought they could; which is not quite the same thing."
"They will cry, he will shout but you must sweat."
"For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!"
"Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."
"You are only responsible for the effort, not the outcome."
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"You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming."
"I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows."
"Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming."
"The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion."
"I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born."
"You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion."
"The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women."
"Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul."
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