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"I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me."
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"At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city."

"Tomorrow' is the thing that's always coming but never arrives. 'Today' is the thing that's already here and never leaves. And because that's the case, I would much prefer to invest in today than sit around waiting for an arrival that's not arriving."

"Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in which these aspects stand to each other."

"I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor."

"Fuck the past. This was the present."

"To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity."

"For most of the people there is no today and there is no tomorrow; for them, there is only the past times! Leave your past to live your today and to live your tomorrow!"
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"I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds."

"Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great."

"In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people."

"After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface."

"I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use."

"If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary."

"Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics."
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