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"I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw."
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"The heavenly sound of music kindles my heart, twinkles my mind, and feeds my soul so that I may transcend and transform."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul."
"The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men."
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