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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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"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."
"Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life."
"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."
"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."
"The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men."
"The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose."
"Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life."
"I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell."
"Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes."
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"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."
"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."
"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
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