"In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be."
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"A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades."
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"All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art."
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"In life you throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall."
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"Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art."
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"An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality."
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"As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language."
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"The urge to destroy is also a creative urge."
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"From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies."
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"Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance."
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"It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: from one canvas to the next, always go further, further."
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"Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth."
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"Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice."
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"Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things."
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"Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall fall on my feet. It is only later that I begin to estimate more exactly the the effect of my work."
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"I have a real passion for bones. I have many others in Boisgeloup: skeletons of birds, dog's and sheep's heads. I even have a rhinoceros skull."
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"Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting."
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"There's no such thing as a bad Picasso, but some are less good than others."
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"Basically the French are all peasants."
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"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working."
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