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

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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. "

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

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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. "

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

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

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

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