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The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.


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Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical.
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A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.
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For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
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My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.
Georges Rouault

Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.
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