"Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius"
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"New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me."
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"Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us"
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"Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad."
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"Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future"
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"I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas."
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"Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which exist between reality and surreality. The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality."
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"The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments"
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"When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault."
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"Everyone should eat hashish, but only once."
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"God invented man, and man invented the metric system."
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"The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures."
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"People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings."
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"Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die."
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"It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning."
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"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality."
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"We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art."
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"Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory."
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"This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art."
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"There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and will. There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."
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