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I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things, they have to get along with one another.
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I can hardly understand the importance given to the word research in connection with modern painting. In my opinion to search means nothing in painting. To find is the thing. Nobody is interested in following a man who, with his eyes fixed on the ground, spends his life looking for the purse that fortune should put in his path. The one who finds something no matter what it might be, even if his intention were not to search for it, at least arouses our curiosity, if not our admiration.
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I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.
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The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altimira!
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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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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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Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it.
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It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.
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