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

"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."
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