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"The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who happened to be working and wanted to express themselves."
"There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes"
"Love must be proven by facts and not by reasons."
"I don't work from nature, I work like nature."
"Sex and art are the same thing."
"If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes."
"Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions."
"I paint what I think, not what I see."
"I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money."
"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."
"When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order."
"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else."
"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary."
"Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness."
"Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality."
"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies."
"When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one laid down a course of action for us, and our friends the poets followed our endeavour attentively but they never dictated it to us."
"What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an old skin and inquire further into the unknown, or at least the not-yet-known-to-myself."
"I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same."
"The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless."