"A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings."
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"When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation."
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"Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible."
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"People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings."
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"Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films."
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"Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring."
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"Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight."
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"Sunlight is painting."
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"I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off."
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"If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again."
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"I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly."
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"I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded."
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"Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts."
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"Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish."
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"I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly changed and renewed."
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"The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also."
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"One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it."
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"Ah! My dear friend painting is to us what the music of Berlioz and Wagner was before us - a consolatory art for sore hearts! And yet there are only a few like you and me who feel it!!!"
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"Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting."
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"Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live."
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