There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.
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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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Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
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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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Give me a museum, and I'll fill it.
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Every positive value has its price in negative terms. The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima
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I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
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Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun
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The chief enemy of creativity is good taste.
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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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I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it
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Accidents, try to change them-it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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Genius is personality with two measures of talent
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Art washes away the dust of everyday life.
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
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The artist is a receptacle for the 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.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done
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Drink to me.
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Art is a lie that tells the truth.
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All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up
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Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
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Art washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday living.
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Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
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