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Quotes by Artist
"The natural desire of good men is knowledge."
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"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."
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"One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it."
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"Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity."
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"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
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"To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another."
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"Great things are not something accidental but must certainly be willed."
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"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done."
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"Well, right now it seems that things are going very badly for me, have been doing so for some considerable time, and may continue to do so well into the future. But it is possible that everything will get better after it has all seemed to go wrong. I am not counting on it, it may never happen, but if there should be a change for the better I should regard that as a gain, I should rejoice, I should say, at last! So there was something after all!"
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"I dream of painting and then I paint my dream."
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"I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream."
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"I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality."
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"All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession."
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"It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.'"
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"Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings."
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"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well."
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"The world concerns me only in so far as I owe it a certain debt and duty, so to speak, because I have walked this earth for 30 years, and out of gratitude would like to leave some memento in the form of drawings and paintings-not made to please this school or that, but to express a genuine human feeling."
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"Intellectual passion drives out sensuality."
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"We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of whom we might say: "He is the one. But you, too, will begin to learn that there is much self-deception behind this longing; if we yielded too much to it, it would lead us from the road."
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"I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet."
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"The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"
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"By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do."
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"No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream."
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"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."
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"Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind."
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"Excuse me for harrowing you with this picture of war. But I am very full of it at present."
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"In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind."
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"The common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."
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"The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source."
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