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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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"Effort will always triumph over unapplied potential."
"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."
"Everything is hard before it is easy."
"Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses."
"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
"A mediocre response often is what achieves mediocre results."
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"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."
"Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching."
"There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness."
"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."
"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."
"Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs."
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