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I pray for the courage to keep struggling to express in color the substance of what life is directing.
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The speaker asks for courage to keep working through the difficulty of expressing, in color, what life is showing or leading them toward. The quote treats artistic expression as an ongoing struggle: the aim is not merely to depict appearances, but to convey the deeper substance of lived experience.
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