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"Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."
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"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."
"Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief, it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living."
"I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own."
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures."
"If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself."
"When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction."
"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."
"When you lack the courage to publicly defend biblical truth, it is a clear testimony that you lack the Holy Spirit. The gift of the Holy Spirit is a gift of no fear."
"It is our beliefs, more than our experiences, that determine life's possibilities."
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all."
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"I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream."
"Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it."
"When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars."
"Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, 'What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.' Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope."
"So what do you want? Does what happens inside show on the outside? There is such a great fire in one's soul, and yet nobody ever comes to warm themselves there, and passersby see nothing but a little smoke coming from the top of the chimney, and go on their way."
"The world concerns me only in so far as I owe it a certain debt and duty, so to speak, because I have walked this earth for 30 years, and out of gratitude would like to leave some memento in the form of drawings and paintings-not made to please this school or that, but to express a genuine human feeling."
"I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime."
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