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

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" 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. "

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