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A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
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A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
Everything is at once reality and symbol.
When I haven't any blue I use red.
When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.
Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.
The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.
We all know that art is not truth. Art is the lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand.
All art is quite useless.
Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.