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While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.
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People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
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God is just another artist, like me.
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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting. Everything I have ever made was made for the present and with the hope that it would always remain in the present.
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The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.
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I felt my energy revive, and said to myself, In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing. From that moment everything has seemed transformed for me.
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Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing unfortunately you can't help being.
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All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.
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Life isn't long enough for love and art.
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