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“Open your eyes at last and see...now I will open the book of the world for you,there are no words in it,just pictures”

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I cannot say why I wanted to paint.The only answer is in the pictures themselves.

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The mystery of the soul is like that of a closed door. When you open it, you see something which was not there before.

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