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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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"I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates."
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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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Personal Development
"Inferior and Superior life lives in the interior of a person."
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Personal Development
"If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people's choices. If I feel good about my body, I don't go around making fun of other people's weight or appearance. We're hard on each other because we're using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency."
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"My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from."
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"Impression, not oppression determines the real life of a real person."
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"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."
Art
"Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash."
Colors
"A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself."
Self-Perception
"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity."
Body
"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."
Peace
"The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose."
Poems
"Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light."
Death
"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul."
Nature
"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."
Art
"The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men."
Man
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