“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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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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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 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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