in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
I exaggerate, I sometimes make changes to the subject, but still I don't invent the whole of the painting; on the contrary, I find it ready-made, but to be untangled, in the real world.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.
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I now consider myself to be at the beginning of the beginning of making something serious.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.
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There is a great difference between one idler and another idler. There is someone who is an idler out of laziness and lack of character, owing to the baseness of his nature. If you like, you may take me for one of those. Then there is the other kind of idler, the idler despite himself, who is inwardly consumed by a great longing for action who does nothing because his hands are tied, because he is, so to speak, imprisoned somewhere, because he lacks what he needs to be productive, because disastrous circumstances have brought him forcibly to this end. Such a one does not always know what he can do, but he nevertheless instinctively feels, I am good for something! My existence is not without reason! I know that I could be a quite a different person! How can I be of use, how can I be of service? There is something inside me, but what can it be? He is quite another idler. If you like you may take me for one of those.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Hope)
I haven't got it yet, but I'm hunting it and fighting for it, I want something serious, something fresh, something with soul in it! Onward, onward.
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When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil. As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
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Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no, just let me be myself, and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.
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I think that everything that is really good and beautiful, the inner, moral, spiritual and sublime beauty in men and their works, comes from God, and everything that is bad and evil in the works of men and in men is not from God, and God does not approve of it.
But I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better, that is what I keep telling myself. But you must love with a sublime, genuine, profound sympathy, with devotion, with intelligence, and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. That will lead to God, that will lead to an unshakeable faith.
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I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it: keep going, keep going come what may.
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