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It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them.
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Woe to you the day it is said that you are finished! To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow; the most unfortunate one for the painter as well as for the picture.
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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
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If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the whole story.
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What the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.
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When we discovered Cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering Cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.
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When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.
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Often one does a painting really for a corner of the canvas that no one looks at. One does a whole painting for one peach and people think... that the particular peach is but a detail.
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What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way the shadows they cast within me, illumine them from the inside. And since of necessity my vision is quite different from that of the next man, my painting will interpret things in an entirely different manner even though it makes use of the same elements.
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To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.
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