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"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."
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"A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself."
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"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."
"Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life."
"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."
"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."
"Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness."
"I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw."
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