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Esfuerzo


François de La Rochefoucauld

The pleasure of painting often masks its strenuous nature. It requires a particular physical effort – the body is indirectly reflected in my paintings through traces – but the hardest thing is the mental effort; the sustained concentration (so often fruitless). As La Rochefoucauld said in his maxims “We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies”.

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