"The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning."
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"You cannot teach painting because everyone's colour sense is different. But drawing..you either get it right or wrong. You can tell whether people have drawn from life from their pictures."
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