I tell you the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
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When I have a terrible need of, shall I say the word, religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
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There is no abstract art. You always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes-holes in walls, holes in lives. Some make holes-in wallets, holes in hearts, in negative space.
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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
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All things considered, there is only Matisse.
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Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the courage to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word. I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age.
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One well-known critic has been pleased to like this extravaganza better than anything I have written. Personally I prefer "The Offshore Pirate." But, to tamper slightly with Lincoln: If you like this sort of thing, this, possibly, is the sort of thing you'll like.
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An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.
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It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist, in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks, where written comments and personal notes provide an intimate insight into the magical mind of a working artist.
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