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The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.
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Metaphysics -- what metaphysics do those trees have?
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No real painter ever wants be known through any other medium than his painting.
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Everything written about art is profoundly unimportant.
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Good painting is not produced by any unintelligent following of inspiration or temperament.
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You may know a good painter by his habit of work: a good painter works constantly.
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Painting is created from within and we must begin from within if we are to understand it.
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But of course these pictures are not shocking; good painting never is.
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To paint even a bottle is dramatic. A leaf will do.
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To know what it is to look at things, life as a prayer, a mass, a celebration.
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Metaphysics --\xa0what metaphysics do those trees have?
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Obey God by living spontaneously.
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