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It had struck me how firmly the saplings were rooted in the ground - I started on them with the brush, but because the ground was already impasted, brush-strokes simply vanished into it. Then I squeezed the roots and trunks in from the tube and modelled them a little with the brush.”
Letter to Theo van Gogh, 3 September 1882

”… in all nature, for instance in trees, I see expression and soul… ”
Letter to Theo van Gogh, 5 November 1882

"Everyone has talent at 25. The difficulty is to have it at 50.” -- Edgar Degas

Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.” -- Pablo Picasso

”Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.” -- Henry Ward Beecher.

"Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point. Lines parallel to the horizon give breadth ... Lines perpendicular to this horizon give depth."
Paul Cézanne (1839--1906).