"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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"Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life."

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"I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell."

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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 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."

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"Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light."

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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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"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."

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"Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society."

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"Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!"

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"Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself."

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"No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right."

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