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- I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".
- In a painting I want to say something comforting.
- It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed…
- The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want…
- If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then.…
- I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and…
- You have first to experience what you want to express.
- I have walked the earth for thirty years and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.
- In order to work and to become an artist one needs love. At least, one who wants sentiment in his work must in the first…
- I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.
- I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don't invent the whole picture. On the contrary, I…
- If you work diligently... without saying to yourself beforehand, 'I want to make this or that,' if you work as though you were making a…
- What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in…
- I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to…
- I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.
- Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.
- I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
- One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
- At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day;…
- In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.
- I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want…
- The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.
- I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly…
- Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the criticism that I work to hurriedly. In answer…
- In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically
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