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Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert FrostChildren are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. KennedySome are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare |
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As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it absolutely. One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it. Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me. One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream. It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important. The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse. ... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need. Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions? The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart. Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. |
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