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- True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
- The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
- To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
- In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
- Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
- My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.