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It's strange. When I put something incomprehensible into a picture, it's usually because the form and colour interest me and because it just happens to fit in. Thwn my friends come along : 'What is that suppose to mean _' And they rack their brains for an interpretation, finding so many ingenious explanations that I feel quite proud of all the unarticulated ideas concealed in my pictures." - Fernand Khnopff to Alma Mahler, while walking in the Prater in Vienna, from her diary July 1899
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Hardly more than a decade later, when everything he knows will be gone forever—this life of his, the people in this room, Vienna itself really—he will look back on this moment and marvel at how randomly a life gets made. But then the rest of his memory of this day will come back to him, its queer weather, the walk with his pensive and distracted father through the Jewish district, his grandfather’s underlying despondency, and all at once his life will look in retrospect like the correct if troub
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― The Marriage Artist
― The Marriage Artist
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