One talks much more about the evil than about the good. That is a paradox. We should only … - Odd Nerdrum

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Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?

Odd Nerdrum

One talks much more about the evil than about the good. That is a paradox. We should only talk about the good to lighten up our existence. Chase anxiousness
fear away for a moment before it sneaks back in again to our life.

Chase, Evil, Good, Moments, Paradox, Sneaks

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The world somehow is always the same. The only thing that can improve is the individual life. One can live a good life. One can give life a meaning. Either by drinking oneself to death or by painting oneself to death or by loving oneself to death.

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The point is that only one thing matters in this world, to prepare oneself for death. One can try to be as comfortable as possible until one dies. . . Because being comfortable does not have any meaning either. It just does not. Everything is only a big meaninglessness that one must bear.

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Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion.

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Everything is a meaningless struggle against nothing and when people say that the world has become a better place that is a false development-optimism. Nothing exists which ever becomes better. Everything stays the same. Somehow, there is nothing. That is so sad. Nothing to come to. Everything is an illusion. A very sweet illusion.

False, Meaningless, Nothing, People, Struggle, Sweet

Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep.

Art, Art Is, Deep, Kitsch, Superficiality, Superficially

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