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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
The way to know life is to love many things.
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.
There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.