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"When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness."
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"If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril."
"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion."
"Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my 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."
"Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes."
"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."
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