As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it absolutely.
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Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling wi...
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There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
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Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cotta...
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I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made..
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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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..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.
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Art is to console those who are broken by life.
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Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
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A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
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I dream my painting and I paint my dream.
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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 ...
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I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
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...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?
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In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can ne...
