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"When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness."
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"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
"For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards."
"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."
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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."
"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."
"Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light."
"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."
"Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes."
"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."
"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."
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