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" Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working. "

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" I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. "

" 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. "

" I do not seek. I find. "

" Action is the foundational key to all success. "

" Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. "

" 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. "

" You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. "

" Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding? "

" One must act in painting as in life, directly. "

" Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. "

" When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait. "

" Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. "

" Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. "

" Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar. "

" If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme. "

" 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. "

" The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. "

" Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. "

" Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. "

" If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur. "

" Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. "

" The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face. "

" 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. "

" Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. "

" There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats. "

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" It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. "