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"I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it."
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"Reflection and learning are lifelong processes..."

"In fact, mistakes are life's way of teaching us the right way to do things."

"You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does."

"He was a quick fellow, and when hot from play, would toss himself in a corner, and in five minutes be deep in any sort of book that he could lay his hands on: if it were Rasselas or Gulliver, so much the better, but Bailey's Dictionary would do, or the Bible with the Apocrypha in it. Something he must read, when he was not riding the pony, or running and hunting, or listening to the talk of men. All this was true of him at ten years of age; he had then read through Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea, which was neither milk for babes, nor any chalky mixture meant to pass for milk, and it had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid."

"Everything I know, I learned from dogs."

"To err is human. To count other people's errors is humane."

"Take the time every day to teach and train yourself how to ask empowering questions. Those who ask the right questions change the world."
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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."


"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."


"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."


"And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them."


"Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous."


"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures."
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