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" A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. "
Picture
Equivalent
Good
" An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men. "
Warm
Must
He
" As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. "
More
Fighting
Life
" But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. "
Know
Best
Always
" Conscience is a man's compass. "
Conscience
Compass
Man
" Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. "
Slave
Become
Imagination
" Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again. "
Fall
Knowledge
My Own
" For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. "
Know
Stars
Nothing
" Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. "
Small Things
Together
Small
" How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? "
Something
Useful
Service
" I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed. "
Want
Help
Faith
" 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. "
Suffering
God
I Am
" I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. "
Dream
Painting
Paint
" 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. "
Beautiful
Nature
Experience
" If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? "
Vanity
Youth
Men
" I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. "
Than
People
More
" 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
Understanding
Time
" If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. "
You
Will
Voice
" 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. "
Great
Everything
Drawing
" I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. "
More
Alive
Positive
" I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. "
Mind
Lost
Soul
" I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners. "
See
Corners
I See
" It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. "
Better
Mistakes
More
" 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. "
Reality
Nature
More
" I wish they would only take me as I am. "
Take
Me
I Wish
" Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy. "
Good
Always
Love
" 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. "
Done
True
Love Is
" 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. "
See
Sit
Way
" One must work and dare if one really wants to live. "
Really
Must
Live
" Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. "
Public
Faith
Duty
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