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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."

"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."

"Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional."

"I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher."
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"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."

"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."

"I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter."

"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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