Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
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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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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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It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
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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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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.
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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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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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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.
