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"I wish they would only take me as I am."

"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way."

"If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
Art

"When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars."
Nature

"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."

"As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed."

"Love is something eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence."

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

"Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."

"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures."

"I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream."

"A good picture is equivalent to a good deed."

"I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate."

"There is no blue without yellow and without orange."

"I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true."

"Conscience is a man's compass."

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"

"The best way to know God is to love many things."

"The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others."

"If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?"

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