"You are in an area where knowledge fails. Where you have to advance in ignorance, not even knowing where you are going."

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“About Van Gogh.. a man who is on fire, a torch. His sincerity is absolute. His best painting is the grain field where he kills himself. There we find ourselves at the border of the art of painting. We cannot go further.”

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