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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.
Marriage is a dinner that begins with dessert.
As a child, I always wanted to live on a boat.
I try to make concrete that which is abstract.
We do not see with our eyes, but through them.
The five senses are the ministers of the soul.
Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.
We may call painting the grandchild of nature.
There is no solution, for there is no problem.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Never copy yourself, always copy someone else.
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.
I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die.
I always feel the audience is my best teacher.
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.
If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse.
To paint nature you must be in it a long time.
Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.
Where there is abundance you can afford waste.
Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush.
Waste not your time on broad sketches in color.
We dont make mistakes. We have happy accidents.
Traditionally, art has been for the select few.
The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
Monsters are the result of the sleep of reason.
I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.
Paint what you see and look with your own eyes.
Through a painting, we can see the whole world.
Of course one should not drink much, but often.
I never think that anything I do is courageous.
My job is to paint what I see, not what I know.
If there's a narrative, I want it in the flesh.
At the same time I really enjoy painting flesh.
That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.
Every man at three years old is half his height
My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.
Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report.
The Medici made me and the Medici destroyed me.
Inequality is the cause of all local movements.
Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.
I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.