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452 Painter Quotes

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Disregard Duty Faith Opinion
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I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.
Corners Drawings Hut Pictures
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In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Again Discouragement Drawing Everything
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The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Ashore Dangerous Dangers Fishermen
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Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

Derives Life Own Painter
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I wish they would only take me as I am.

Am Me Only Take
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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.

Blazing Came Chimney Continue
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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.

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

Advance Becomes Developed Difficult
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Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Brought Done Great Series
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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.

Feeling Important Language Listen
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I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Dream Paint Painting Then
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A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

Deed Equivalent Good Picture
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There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

Blue Orange Without Yellow
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If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Ambition Become Boyhood Men
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Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Become Imagination Inspiration Model
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Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Accomplish Done Lies Loves
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How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

How Inside Me Service
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If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Insight Many Master Thing
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The way to know life is to love many things.
Know Life Love Many
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I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Artistic Feel Love More
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For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Any Certainty Dream Know
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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Easy Everywhere Looking Paper
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Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

Always Brings Difficulties Energy
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It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

Better Even Makes Mistakes
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I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Am Appear Beautiful Clarity
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I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

Am Both Cannot Create
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An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
Artist Certainly Fellow Heart
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Days Laughter Most Wasted
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Become Courage Grow Grow Up
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Any Believe Curiosity Delight
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

Imagine Living Living Thing Only
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

Wonderful World Is Mud
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Anything Careful Little Love
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Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

Began Had His Instant
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It takes three to make a child.

Child Make Takes Three
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At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

Children Clocks Fathers Indians
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Because Buy Drink Hard
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Buried Dead Imagination Knowledge
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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

Autumn Away Blown I Think
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I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

Better Body Like More
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Any Battle Being Best
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Alive Being Dead Isn't
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

Amazing Blue Day Dream
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Bird Dance How Learn
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
Always Any Creation Destroy
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Better Fate Kisses Than
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

Any Else Love Makes
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Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

Door Go Good Hell
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

Always Answer Ask Beautiful
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