"When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired."
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"What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion."
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"Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art."
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"People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it."
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"I am only a public entertainer who understands his time."
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"Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it."
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"It took me a lifetime."
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"What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas."
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"If it's good, it's mine. If it's bad, it's a fake."
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"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist."
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"You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on."
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"I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them."
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"The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense."
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"A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else."
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"Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty."
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"We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth."
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"Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things."
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"A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change."
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"Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul."
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"Action is the foundation of all success."
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