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"The only real influence I've ever had was myself."
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"Every writer is a writer of the generation before."

"The greatest goal is to be a God-carrier in your sphere of life."
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"I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me."

"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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