in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
I'm drawing a great deal and think it's getting better.
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It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.
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Now I say it less in words and more silently in work.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Poetry)
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
For great things do not done (sic) just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.
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Some good must come by clinging to the right. Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
Try to grasp the essence of what the great artists, the serious masters, say in their masterpieces, and you will again find God in them. One man has written or said it in a book, another in a painting.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Friend)
Now, there are people who say to me "Why did you have anything to do with her," that's one fact. And there are people who say to her, "Why did you have anything to do with him," that's another fact.
Apart from that, both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets neither of us have any. Look here I believe without question, or have the certain knowledge, that she loves me. I believe without question, or have the certain knowledge, that I love her. It has been sincerely meant. But has it also been foolish, etc?
Perhaps, if you like but aren't the wise ones, those who never do anything foolish, even more foolish in my eyes than I am in theirs?
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The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.
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