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Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.