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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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"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."
Art
"Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life."
Death
"Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash."
Colors
"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
"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."
Art
"The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men."
Man
"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."
Poems
"Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life."
Death
"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."
Life
"Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes."
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"Impression, not oppression determines the real life of a real person."
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Personal Development
"Inferior and Superior life lives in the interior of a person."
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Personal Development
"My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from."
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Personal Development
"I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates."
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Personal Development
"A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself."
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Personal Development
"If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people's choices. If I feel good about my body, I don't go around making fun of other people's weight or appearance. We're hard on each other because we're using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency."
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Personal Development
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