Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.

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Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.

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By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

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By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.
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Color Form Vibrate
Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.

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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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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
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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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

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The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
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Steal
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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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

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Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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Development
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
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
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
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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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.

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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
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Easy Sculptor
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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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
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
I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red. I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.

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I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red. I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.
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Loud Pierce Scream

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