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I have never lost my faith in my painting, my work, as a child or an adult, in sickness or health, success or failure, peace or war ...

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It's all there, the strangeness, colour, exhilaration.

I paint colour as a woman sees and hears...

I have been able to devote my energies to what I really am, a woman painter. It is my life.

I, as other painters do, live to paint and paint to live.

I've tried through the medium of paint to express ... how simple and wonderful living is ...

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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