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"Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness."
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"The proper stuff of fiction does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."
"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
"I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language."
"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
"I see my life in terms of music."
"Professing not to care is a primordial defense mechanism. Whenever a person finds oneself mired in failure and despondency, rebelling is a viable option to preserve false personal pride."
"Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer."
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"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul."
"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."
"I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw."
"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."
"I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available."
"Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life."
"A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself."
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