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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
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I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.
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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.