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I don't like noises around me, except nature, the voices of nature.
Like birds singing or water...
Water is very good for painting.
It makes it flowing...
it makes it softer.
When I started painting, I only painted circles.
Circles, circles, circles.
The circle is my favourite shape.
Because it's without a beginning and without an end.
It makes everything round.
The background is mostly the edges in life.
It's the best position to sit on the ground...
but it started because I always said I didn't have enough space.
And that's not the right place. But I can do it everywhere now.
My paintings don't have a top or bottom.
It's very important for me...
that my paintings can hang in every position...
because the viewer discovers more and more in the painting...
and the light shows...
the painting inside.
Turn it to the left or to the right or upside down...
or you can put it on a corner...
and you have a completely different painting.
But that's up to the new owner.
I give the advice to the buyer:
Please change the paintings from one room to another.
And turn them. Then you will see how the energy flows.
My paintings are alive. They want to be moved.
I've never imagined that I can call myself an artist, a painter.
And everybody has an artist inside them.
You can make it good for you.
There are so many ways to be an artist.
And it's not necessary to become famous.
You do it for yourself. I do it for myself.
And it's not important for me if anybody buys my paintings.
I don't have much money and I'm not rich...
but first and foremost I do it for myself.
I love to work with these colours...
because of the brightness.
I build a symbiosis between the colour and the material...
and I prefer to use this.
If you take the colour, you can feel if it is good.
If it's positive material.
I think you all know it from clothes...
or other things in your everyday life...
but some products feel good and some don't.
And these feel very good.
The most difficult things are the eye catcher in a painting.
But it's not necessary to think about it. It happens.
In my opinion, the best way is to switch off the mind.
In my opinion, everybody can be an artist.
I started painting...
a few years ago...
after I had a bad life event.
And it was the time to find myself...
to find a new way for me.
I'm now a famous artist.
Well-known.
And I'm proud to be well-known in the United States.
I've worked very hard for it, but I'm very grateful...
and pretty lucky, I think.
Painting is a fantastic instrument...
for being happy.
I remember when I painted my first nude, I took pastels...
and a picture from the internet, with only the contours of nude.
I was so happy that I was able to do it with my own hands.
When it was finished, I cried like a little girl.
Monika Mori Moedling - Austria - 1960
Monika's belief is: 'Painting makes you a happier person.'
Her work is colourful, bright and sparkling and is much admired in the US.
While painting, she sits on the floor and rotates her painting.
This is why her paintings are never upside down.
Monika Mori lives and works in a small apartment in Maria Enzersdorf, Austria.
She uses Van Gogh acrylic paint and Van Gogh Modelling Paste.
Van Gogh. That's me.