“The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.”
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The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.
One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.