For a long time I limited myself to one colour, as a form of discipline.
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It's only the masters that matter. Those who create. And they don't even turn around when you piss on their heels.
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Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall fall on my feet. It is only later that I begin to estimate more exactly the effect of my work.
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You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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People want to find a "meaning" in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age, an age that is anything but practical but believes itself to be more practical than any other age.
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Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse.
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This bull is a bull and this horse is a horse... If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.
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There ought to be an absolute dictatorship, a dictatorship of painters, a dictatorship of one painter to suppress all those who have betrayed us.
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I do not seek. I find.
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