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"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."
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"Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions."
"When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist."
"I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality."
"Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing."
"The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature."
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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."
"The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men."
"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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