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• Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful…
• Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do…
• My God, I'd rather go to Europe than go to heaven.
• Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view…
• I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.
• You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study…
• Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.
• Don't try to make comparisons between your own pictures. Forget what you have done and think only of making the best of…
• Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.
• It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils…
• Design is everything.
• I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw…

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