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" It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. "

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

" It takes a long time to become young. "

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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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" 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. "

" An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. "

" I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. "

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" Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. "

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

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

" 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. "

" God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. "

" Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. "

" The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. "

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

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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. "

" The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? "

" I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. "