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

Death, Life, Angels, Disease

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

Fear, Heaven, Hell, Photography

"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."

Friendship, People, Afterlife, Earth, Friends

"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."

Peace,

"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."

Art, Anxiety, Deep, Feeling

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

Death, Work, Colors, Light

"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."

Life, Colors, Painting

"Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash."

Colors,

"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, Men, Women, People

"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, Eyes

Exlpore more Enemy quotes

"I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is."

Shana Alexander, American Journalist

Enemy, Man, Woman

"The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself."

Saul Alinsky, American Activist

Enemy, Freedom

"My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years."

Margaret Anderson, American Editor

Enemy, Reality, Years

"Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults."

Antisthenes, Greek Philosopher

Enemy, Enemies, Faults, First

"The wise learn many things from their enemies."

Aristophanes, Greek Poet

Enemy, Enemies

"Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters."

Raymond Aron, French Philosopher

Enemy, Enemies, Future

"No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves."

Francis of Assisi, Italian Saint

Enemy, Harm

"The last of our enemies is laid low."

Clement Attlee, English Leader

Enemy, Enemies

"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Enemy, Man, Revenge

"We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion."

Douglas Bader, British Soldier

Enemy, Flying