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• The life of the consciousness is boundless. It interpenetrates the world and is woven in all its imagery. Therefore, we must listen…
• Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.
• However ugly a face may be, we can discover some beauty in it if we first experience wonder before it and then…
• The most fundamental in me is coming uppermost, and the transient, the sensational, is dispersing, because it can't adversely influence what is…
• I cannot say why I wanted to paint.The only answer is in the pictures themselves.
• All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental…
• Open your eyes at last and see...now I will open the book of the world for you,there are no words in it,just…
• True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.
• I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my…
• I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do…
• The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception...…
• How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt…

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