"Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar."
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"But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown-a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest."
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"I do not seek. I find."
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"I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I."
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"People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!"
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"The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies."
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"I draw like other people bite their nails."
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"I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use."
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"The hidden harmony is better than the obvious."
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"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."
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"An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought."
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"The path to youth takes a lifetime."
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"You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea."
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"Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?"
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"A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions."
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"To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality."
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"Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true."
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"Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research."
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"When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do it over several times. In each destroying of a beautiful discovery, the artist does not really suppress it, but rather condenses it, makes it more substantial. What comes out in the end is the result of discarded finds. Otherwise you become your own connoisseur."
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"Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us."
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