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

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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. "

" To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic. "

" I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. "

" One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail. "

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

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

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

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

" Good artists copy, great artists steal. "

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

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

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" To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved. "

" 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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" 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. "

" You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer. "

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

" 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. "

" The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense. "

" Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. "

" Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it? "

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

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

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" The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is. "

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