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• Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.
• Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.
• Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
• A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters,…
• In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for…
• I am a great artist and I know it. It's because I am that I have endured such sufferings.
• When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.
• Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude,…
• Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and…
• Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.
• A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure…
• Civilization is what makes you sick.

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