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"Realism is not about copying nature, but understanding its essence."
Reality is not what we see, but what we discover through art.
"Tradition is not a cage, but wings for the artist."
"Realism is not about copying nature, but understanding its essence."
I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.
I don't paint what I see, I paint what I understand.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
The state is not a work of art; it is a necessity.
It is not the task of history to judge, but to understand.
The greatest tragedy is not death, but forgetting one's mother tongue.
The true poem is written not with ink but with blood.
The greatest crimes are not committed by those who break the rules, but by those who follow them to the letter.
Happiness is not the absence of suffering, but the ability to overcome it.