My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50. I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.

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My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50. I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.

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The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories – those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.

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The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories – those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.
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Academics Factory
The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.

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The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
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Removal
A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.

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A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.
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Interior
Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red.

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Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red.
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Holy Honor
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.

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Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
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Anxiety Ship
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.

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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.
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Conversation
Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

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Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
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Canvas Color
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.

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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.
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Drawing Frame
There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.

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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.

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The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.
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Camera Tools
The way one sees is also dependent upon one’s emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.

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The way one sees is also dependent upon one’s emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.
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Mindset See Way
And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?

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And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?
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Stare
I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.

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I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
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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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I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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Color
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
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Prosperity

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