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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. "

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

" Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. "

" All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. "

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

" I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. "

" I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting! "

" Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. "

" Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding? "

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

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

" 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. "

" Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. "

" There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. "

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

" He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. "

" It takes a long time to become young. "

" They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better. "

" To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. "

" Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Action is the foundational key to all success. "

" We don't grow older, we grow riper. "