"No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy."
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"The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion."
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"When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait."
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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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"Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects"
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"You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer."
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"If you don't know what color to take, take black."
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"The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm."
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"Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to."
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"There's nothing more difficult than a line."
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"When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an artist persist in treating subjects that can be established so clearly with the lens of a camera?"
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"We don't grow older, we grow riper."
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"I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else."
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"Why assume that to look is to see?"
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"Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding."
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"It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good."
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"In the end there is only Matisse."
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"If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic Calligraphy was there ages before I was."
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"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock."
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"To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all."
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