"What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead."
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"Formerly pictures used to move towards completion in progressive stages. Each day would bring something new. A picture was a sum of additions. With me, picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture, then I destroy it. But in the long run nothing is lost; the red that I took away from one place turns up somewhere else."
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"They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better."
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"The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting."
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"We have learned nothing."
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"We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities."
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"If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme."
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"When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me."
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"We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of generals. In the same way, there is nothing more dangerous than justice in the hands of judges, and a paint brush in the hands of a painter! Just think of the danger to society! But today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets because we no longer admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst."
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"I have had no true friends, only lovers."
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"Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy."
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"Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight of them gave me an initial emotion, little by little their real presence grew indistinct they became a fiction for me, then they disappeared, or rather, were turned into problems of all kinds. For me they are no longer two figures but shapes and colours, don't misunderstand me, shapes and colours, though, that sum up the idea of the two figures and preserve the vibration of their existence."
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"I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place."
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"Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important."
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"The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future."
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"The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. And the dust that falls on it every day remains there. Everything that's come down to us from the past has been conserved by dust."
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"I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries."
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"Painting is a jeu d'esprit."
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"Man doesn't change. He keeps his habits. Instinctively, all those people found the same corner for their kitchen. To build a city, don't men choose the same sites? Under cities you always find other cities; other churches under churches, and other houses under houses."
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"What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists."
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