[b]Edvard Munch
My father was temperamentally nervous and obsessively religious—to the point of psychoneurosis. From him I inherited the seeds of madness. The angels of fear, sorrow, and death stood by my side since the day I was born. [/b]
Dasein, in other words.
My will exceeds my talents.
Tell me about it, he sulked.
When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.
Yo, Vincent!
Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
Or: Words live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the posts.
You know, if that’s actually true.
Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
Like, for some, that’s a good thing.
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.
For example, there being absolutely no proof of this.
Besides, up there, what would you talk about?