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"When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars."
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"The Divine "goodness" differs from ours, but it is not sheerly different; it differs from ours not as white from black, but as a perfect circle from a child's first attempt to draw a wheel. But when the child has learned to draw, it will know that the circle it then makes is what it was trying to make from the very beginning."
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"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."


"Well, right now it seems that things are going very badly for me, have been doing so for some considerable time, and may continue to do so well into the future. But it is possible that everything will get better after it has all seemed to go wrong. I am not counting on it, it may never happen, but if there should be a change for the better I should regard that as a gain, I should rejoice, I should say, at last! So there was something after all!"


"If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning."


"One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it."


"It has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don't know the artistic side of a painting."


"Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it."
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