"Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!"
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"Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness."
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"...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized."
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"If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the whole story."
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"Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities."
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"I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary."
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"Art is a finger up the bourgeoisie ass."
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"The people who make art their business are mostly imposters."
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"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
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"All Children are Artists"
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"The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is."
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"To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing."
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"If you can imagine it...it is real"
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"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."
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"The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. I have contented these people with all the many bizarre things that come into my head. And the less they understand, the more they admire it. By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time."
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"Good designers copy; great designers steal."
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"If I don't have red, I use blue."
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"You don't make art, you find it"
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"You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better; it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting."
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"We have a lot of reasons but only one real one."
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