"I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music."
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"There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art."
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"The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery."
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"I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music."
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"Artists are fiery; they do not weep."
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"My greatest fortune was that I was ordered to take up art for the good of my health"
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"I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to the conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake."
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"Through art we express our conception of what nature is not."
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"When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection."
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"The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting. Everything I have ever made was made for the present and with the hope that it would always remain in the present."
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"I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents."
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"People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is."
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"All art is subversive."
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"Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one can remove all semblance of reality; there is no longer any danger as the idea of the object has left an indelible imprint."
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"To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was."
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"So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality."
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"As you can see, at my age - 48 - Art is still one big experiment."
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"Although not of the quality of my later work, I feel there is some quality to it [my early work] in an art sense, and probably some additional quality in a biographical sense."
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"I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realistic art, impressionism and the more decorative compositions of different forms of painting, which took away from the earlier photographic realism that I was doing."
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"In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art."
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