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"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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"That was a thing of wolves; they could know the past and the future, yet keep their attention on the hunt. Could he do the same? Allow himself to be consumed when needed, yet keep balance in other parts of his life?"
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"Your instinct, rather than precision stabbing, is more about just random bludgeoning."
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"The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves."
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"My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions."
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"Style is primarily a matter of instinct."
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"A 'biomass' man reaction comes from reflexes and instinct."
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"Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better."
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"If you swim with sharks, make sure you have the appetite of a whale."
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"You have put yourself at risk to activate your instinctual genius."
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"It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel."
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"I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value."
Art
"Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add."
Work
"When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart."
Soul
"I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!"
Thought
"Paint the essential character of things."
Character
"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."
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."
Character
"I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely."
Age
"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."
Creativity
"God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists."
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