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"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."
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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."

"A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself."

"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."

"The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose."

"Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light."

"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul."

"This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution."

"The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men."
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