"Out in the wilds I would like to own a crenellated castle, with a tower of grey stone and timbers of pine and oak. There I would brood on my own, spend a few hours in my laboratory, a few in my library, and the rest of the day forging metal, painting and sculpting."
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  • "I can always reach the point where my country will be content with myachievements, but my ambition reaches much farther! Everything or nothing, first or last. That is the motto I want to keep for the rest of my life."
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  • "The benefits of working in many different areas of the arts are few, but in a small nation setting out on its own path initiative and impulses are of great importance... And finally, it is not only art that I serve with all this. Art is life, religion - everything."
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