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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

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A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.

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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

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You can't be more horrific than life itself.

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I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along.

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A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

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He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

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If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

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It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

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It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.

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I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

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There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

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All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

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He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

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Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

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Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. In fact Jesus was constantly making pictures of God in people's life by looking at their souls and exposing them to his light.

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