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Last year I wrote: 'the intensity with which a subject is grasped, that is what makes for beauty in art'. Isn't it also true for love?

— Paula Modersohn-Becker

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..to have all colors deeper, more intense; |I| get quite angry at this lightness..

The intensity with which a subject is grasped (still life's, portraits, or creations of the imagination) – that is what makes for beauty in art.

I feel a burning desire to become grand in simplicity.

How happy I would be if I could give figurative expression to the unconscious feeling that often murmurs so softly and sweetly within me.

In her Diary (1898)

I would like to go to Paris for a week. Fifty-six Cezannes are being shown there!

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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