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When I was young, Monsieur," he said, "I used to think a lot about God. But He seems to have grown thinner with the years. He is still in that cornfield you painted, and in the sunset by Montmajour, but when I think about men . . . and the world they have made . . ." "I know, Roulin, but I feel more and more that we must not judge God by this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. What can you do in a study that has gone wrong, if y..
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I was thinking that Rembrandt would have like to paint you.
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How could he have been so stupid, so blind? David pictured after Goliath could be no one but the biblical David, a special individual. He was not content to portray one man; he was seeking universal man, Everyman, all of whom,from the beginning of time, had faced a decision to strike for freedom
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Only suffering grows big artists.
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You are a grand nerveux, Vincent," Doctor Rey had told him. "You never have been normal. But then, no artist is normal; if he were, he wouldn't be an artist. Normal men don't create works of art. They eat, sleep, hold down routine jobs, and die. You are hypersensitive to life and nature; that's why you are able to interpret for the rest of us. But if you are not careful, that very hypersensitiveness will lead you to your destruction. The st..
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Actually, Paris wakes up when it comes time for aperitif.
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That was how his pen finally designed his sculpture; in the center the weak, confused, arrogant, soon to be destroyed young man holding cup a loft, behind him the idyllic child, clear-eyed, munching his grapes, symbol of joy ; between them the tiger skin. The Bacchus, hollow within himself, flabby, reeling, already old; the Satyr, eternally young and gay, symbol of man's childhood and naughty innocence
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dr dny mrdmy lmdhhb tr, sngdl tr w dny prst tr z khshysh h yft nmy shwnd wnsn wn gwg shwr zndgy, yrwyng stwn
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Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.
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He turned, stood above the crowd gazing up at him. There was silence in the square. And yet he had never felt such complete communication. It was as though they read each other's thoughts, as though they were one and the same: they were part of him,every Florentine standing below, eyes turned up to him, and he was a part of them.
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Naci ce se drugi papa, ali nikad vise nece biti Boticelija.
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Van Gogh asked,
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God is imagined as a rich, old gentleman who is very happy that things are going so smooth here on Earth that he had created.
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The simplest things that need self-restraint are the most difficult to replicate.
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Cardinal Giovanni still did not like delicate matters; they were usually painful.
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He turned, stood above the crowd gazing up at him. There was silence in the square. And yet he had never felt such complete communication.
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Do you call yourself an artist?" "Yes." "How absurd. You never sold a picture in your life." "Is that what being an artist means--selling? I thought it meant one who was always seeking without absolutely finding. I thought it means the contrary from 'I know it, I have found it.' When I say I am an artist, I only mean"
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I don't know myself," he said. "I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me, and I say, 'That white board must become something!' I work for a long time, I come back home dissatisfied, I put it away in the closet. When I have rested a little I go to look at it with a kind of fear. I am still dissatisfied because I have too clearly in my mind the splendid original to be content with what I have made of it. But after all, I ..
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The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.
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But we artists have to be selfish you know, after all, with each painting, we die a little.
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They had painted in a grand rush to keep intact the purity of their first impression, the mood in which the motif had been conceived.
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You can only have the courage and strength to do what you think is right. It may turn out to be wrong, but you will at least have done it, and that is the important thing. We must act according to the best dictates of our reason, and then leave God to judge its ultimate value.
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What went through the mind of Christ between the sunset hour when the Roman soldier drove the first nail through his flesh, and the hour when he died? For these thoughts would determine not only how he accepted his fate, but also the position of his body on the cross. Donatello's Christ accepted in serenity, and thought nothing. Brunelleschi's Christ was so ethereal that he died at the first touch of the nail, and had no time to think. He..
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As he reached the door of the chapel and turned back for a last look, he saw that the Virgin too was sad and lonely; the most alone human being God ever put on earth.
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Vincent took them in the full spirit of friendship which knows that the difference between giving and taking is purely temporal.
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As he went about to the other workrooms he realised that every painting was a self-portrait even when it was a still life or a scene over the roofs of Paris; for no man ever pictured anything but himself, his core, the things that he was basically. With every brush stroke the artist was mercilessly exposed: he could not conceal nothing, he could pretend to be another person, to believe in other values, but in the end he would fool no one.
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Only now, years after having read though the works of Shakespeare, Dickens, Scott, Poe, Balzac did he realise that even the most prolific writer created only one novel; throw away the individual bindings and the whole of each man's writing constituted one book: the true and complete portrait of himself. An artist had one thing to say, and one only; he might flail about, seek new techniques, forms, colour combinations, subjects, but intrinsi..
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Sometimes I think that just as trains and carriages are means of locomotion to get us from one place to another on this earth, so typhoid and consumption are means of locomotion to get us from one world to another.
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Many times in your life you may think you are failing, but ultimately you will express yourself and that expression will justify your life.
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there is more beauty in a harsh truth than in a pretty lie, more poetry in earthiness than in all the salons of Paris.
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One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.
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Have you ever been in love?" "...in a way." "It's always 'in a way."
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gwgn: aqy wn gwg prys r chTwr my bynyd? wn gwg: khyly dwst drm gwgn: `jybh! hmh hmyn r mygn! mn bh shm khwdm prys r khkhrwbh dwnyi bzrgy my dwnm khh tmdn hm khkhrwbh sh st shwr zndgy, yrwyng stwn
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ay m`ny hnrmnd bwdn, frwkhtn st? mn khyl my khrdm hnrmnd khsy st khh dy'm my jwyd bdwn ynkhh "khml" bybd. fkhr my khrdm khh mfhwm an, mkhlf <> st. wqty my gwym khh mn hnrmndm, fqT mqSwdm ynst khh jstjw my khnm, tkhpw my khnm w z th dl bh an my prdzm"
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Indignation. Best fuel I know. Never burns out.
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There's all the kids at home, and my mother and brother. And the men I pick up. But you live alone anyhow, don't you? It ain't people that count. It's having someone you really like.
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Wiedzial dawniej, ze mozna zlamac reke lub noge i wyzdrowiec; do tej pory nie wiedzial jednak, ze mozna wyzdrowiec po ataku szalenstwa.
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Dintotdeauna cititul insemnase pentru el bucuria cea mai mare si mai statornica, si cu atat mai mult il pasiona acum, cand in povestea triumfului sau a infrangerilor, a suferintelor sau a bucuriilor altora gasea o evadare din umbra staruitoare a propriei sale nereusite... in fiecare carte pe care o citea incerca sa descopere telul care ar putea da vietii lui un nou sens.
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Viata insasi indreapta spre om o fata goala, nepasatoare, descurajanta, pe care nu se citeste nimic, ca si pe panza asta goala. Dar omul nu se sperie de acest gol, paseste plin de incredere si de curaj, se zbate, cladeste, creeaza, si pana la urma, panza nu va mai ramane goala, ci se acopera cu formele bogate ale vietii.
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Toata marea literatura are un caracter universal. Altfel piere.
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Stiinta este arta de a crea iluzii acceptabile.
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Erezia unei generatii este ortodoxia generatiei urmatoare.
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Nimeni nu poate scapa de suferinta, cel mai bun lucru pe care il putem face e sa nu suferim orbeste.
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Liubovta e solta na zhivota; chovek ima nuzhda ot neia, za da podchertae vkusa na sveta.
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