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"The only real influence I've ever had was myself."
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"As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather, in the individual is vested the capacity to lead the masses."
"Our relationship with God broadens our opportunities and influence on earth."
"The child accepts role models of parental behavior unconsciously and without thinking."
"Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidencecould be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt."
"Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily."
"Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves."
"Spend your time with the people who talk about the stars because to whichever place you put your mind in, you will move to that place! Stars pull you to the stars; mud pulls you to the mud!"
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"I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions."
"Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great."
"The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting."
"My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature."
"If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary."
"It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method."
"Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world."
"I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me."
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