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"I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker."

"I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy."

"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."

"I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume."

"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul."

"By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life."

"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."

"Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes."

"I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell."

"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."
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