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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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"Inferior and Superior life lives in the interior of a person."
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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
"My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from."
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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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"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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"Impression, not oppression determines the real life of a real person."
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"A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself."
Self-Perception
"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."
Love
"When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness."
Enemy
"The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men."
Man
"I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available."
Vision
"I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell."
Fear
"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
"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
"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."
Being
"Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life."
Death
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