"When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing."
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"An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work."
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"We didn't want to sign the painting itself, that would have interfered with the composition. And even later, for that reason or for another, I sometimes marked my canvases on the back. If you don't see my signature and the date, madam, it's because the frame is hiding it."
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"Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach."
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"I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated."
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"So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air."
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"Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point?"
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"Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea."
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"I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time."
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"What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest."
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"I know well enough in advance that you'll find my paintings perfect. I know that if they are exhibited they'll be a great success, but I couldn't be more indifferent to it since I know they are bad, I'm certain of it."
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"I think only of my painting, and if I were to drop it, I think I'd go crazy."
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"No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others."
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"How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired."
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"Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die."
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"Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch."
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"There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events."
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"Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive."
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"As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely."
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"The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution."
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