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"Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured."
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"If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable."
"Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!"
"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."
"Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control."
"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature."
"The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!"
"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."
"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."
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"I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain."
"Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones."
"For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations."
"The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it."
"I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me."
"The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings."
"I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing."
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