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"Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash."
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"The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it."
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"They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black."
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"Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colors that are but skin-deep."
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"I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings."
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"Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure. I had great satisfaction in doing that."
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"And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me."
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"My Panasonic typewriter can make graphs. It types in four different colors."
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"Thank you for allowing me to use colors as rich and deep as you please. I had always wanted to do so, yet was never allowed because of the color capabilities of our lithographers. Now that I have done it, I don't think I'll ever go back."
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"I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like."
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"The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something."
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"Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder."
Health
"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."
Life
"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity."
Body
"To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction."
Being
"Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes."
People
"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."
Life
"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul."
Nature
"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."
Poems
"Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life."
Death
"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."
Art
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