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I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

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It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

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Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

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I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.

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I think that one of the things is that, if you are going to decide to be a painter, you have got to decide that you are not going to be afraid of making a fool of yourself. I think another thing is to be able to find subjects which really absorb you to try and do. I feel that without a subject you automatically go back into decoration because you haven't got the subject which is always eating into you to bring it back - and the greatest art always returns you to the vulnerability of the human situation.

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To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

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A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back.

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

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Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

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The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

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The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.

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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

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The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

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There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

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Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.

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But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

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