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Quotes by Artist
"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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"It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation-of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things-the thought of God comes into one's mind."
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"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
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"When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars."
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"Realize that everything connects to everything else."
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"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."
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"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."
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"The way to know life is to love many things."
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"I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful."
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"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model."
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"We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell."
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"There is safety in the very heart of danger."
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"I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it."
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"When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh."
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"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."
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"There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single."
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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."
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"I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface."
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"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."
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"To become an artist you have to be curious."
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"There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see."
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"The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too."
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"I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime."
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"I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action."
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"A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke."
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"A good picture is equivalent to a good deed."
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"A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not."
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"There is always a delightful sense of movement, vibration and life."
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"I thought I would be understood without words."
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"I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream."
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"Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain."
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