“My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are?.. my art gives meaning to my life.”
Quote in Edvard Munch: Psyche, Symbol and Expression (2001) by Jeffery Howe
after 1930
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“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”
http://www.girlscantwhat.com/2007/10/15/i-am-my-own-experiment/
Variant: I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
In Pursuit of Valis: Selections from the Exegesis (1991)
Context: I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist; my novel and story-writing ability is employed as a means to formulate my perception. The core of my writing is not art but truth. Thus what I tell is the truth, yet I can do nothing to alleviate it, either by deed or explanation. Yet this seems somehow to help a certain kind of sensitive troubled person, for whom I speak. I think I understand the common ingredient in those whom my writing helps: they cannot or will not blunt their own intimations about the irrational, mysterious nature of reality, and, for them, my corpus of writing is one long ratiocination regarding this inexplicable reality, an investigation and presentation, analysis and response and personal history. My audience will always be limited to those people.
“I depict my life and experiences in my works of art.”
quoted by his sister Emmy Muellers in her 'Recollections'; as cited in Otto Mueller: A Stand-Alone Modernist, Dieter W. Posselt; 2006 / new edition 2010, Books on Demand, GmbH, Norderstedt, Germany - ISBN:978-3-8448-6866-1
N 45, as quoted in Edvard Much – behind the scream, Sue Prideaux; Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 35
after 1930
As quoted in 'From my rotting body, flowers shall grow, and I am in them, and that is eternity', Potter P. Emerg Infect Dis, 2011
after 1930
“I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.”
Osnos, Evan. “ It’s Not Beautiful: An Artist Takes On the System http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/05/24/100524fa_fact_osnos?currentPage=all.” New Yorker, May 24, 2010, 54–63.
2010-, 2010
“With purity and with holiness I will pass my life and practice my Art.”
Oath of Hippocrates (c. 400 BC)
“Thou art my life, my way, my light”
Why dost thou Shade thy Lovely Face? (1635).
