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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."

"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."

"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."

"Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place."
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"Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time."

"It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character."

"At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it."

"I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value."

"Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes."

"Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression."

"When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart."

"I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!"
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