It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
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Work cures everything.
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I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.
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