"Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude."
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"I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance."
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"One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different."
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"If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art."
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"What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you might call a painter's ideal... the kind that's always existed... No. They couldn't care less about that."
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"How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue."
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"Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy."
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"When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away."
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"Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters."
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"Computers are stupid."
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"I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them."
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"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun"
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"I like all paintings. 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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"Never copy yourself, always copy someone else."
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"Good taste is the enemy of creativity."
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"I want to create a cat like the real cats I see crossing the streets, not like those you see in houses. They have nothing in common. The cat of the streets has bristling fur. It runs like a fiend, and if it looks at you, you think it is going to jump in your face."
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"The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all."
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"When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation."
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"For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline."
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"Lord, protect me from what I want!"
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