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" An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. "
Pablo Picasso
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" We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand. "
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" Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. "
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" Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint. "
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" Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. "
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" Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. "
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" Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. "
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" I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. "
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" The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense. "
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" The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. "
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" What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist. "
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" Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. "
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" I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. "
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" Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. "
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" What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. "
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" He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. "
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" The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. "
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" They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better. "
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" We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it. "
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" All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. "
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" The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? "
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" Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. "
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" One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail. "
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" Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. "
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" Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. "
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" Good artists copy, great artists steal. "
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" When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it. "
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" Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. "
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" Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. "
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" I do not seek. I find. "
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" Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. "
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