Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being… You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.

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Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being… You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.

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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.

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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.
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Detail
Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
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It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.

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It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
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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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A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
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Oneself
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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All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.

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All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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See
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.

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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.
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For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

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For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
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Anxiety Expression
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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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.

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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.
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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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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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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
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

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