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Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.


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Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.



I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.



You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.



The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.



Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.



Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.



What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.

What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.



It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.



You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.

You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.



Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.





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Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that’s the light.




Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.



For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.

For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.



Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.

Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.



Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".

Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".



The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.



Worry is nothing but practical infidelity. The person who worries reveals his lack of trust in God and that he is trusting too much in self.

Worry is nothing but practical infidelity. The person who worries reveals his lack of trust in God and that he is trusting too much in self.



The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest.

The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest.




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