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Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.
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I don't say everything, but I paint everything.
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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
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For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me. It is nothing more than this.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.
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An artist doesn't live in some geographical abstraction, superimposed on a part of this beautiful earth by the nonimagination of unanimals and dedicated to the proposition that massacre is a social virtue because murder is an individual vice. Nor does an artist live in some soi-disant world, nor does he live in some so-called universe, nor does he live in any number of "worlds" or in any number of "universes." As for a few trifling delusions like the "past" and "present" and "future" of quote mankind unquote, they may be big enough for a couple of billion supermechanized submorons but they're much too small for one human being.
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Artists no longer starve in garrets. Some people may think this is not wholly a good thing, that being an artist has become too comfortable, at least in the West. I'm not sure I agree. It's a mark of civilization to encourage the arts and the life of the mind.
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Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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