He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

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