Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.
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You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it eludes such investigation. It remains there like a question. And it alone gives the answer.
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What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.
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People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it.
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The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
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Everything you can imagine is real.
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I'd like to live like a poor man with lots of money.
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Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.
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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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I like all painting. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine.
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