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- In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy…
- I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
- Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
- What I am after, above all, is expression.
- Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.
- All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in…
- From Bonheur de Vivre - I was thirty-five then - to this cut-out - I am eighty-two - I have not changed; not in the…
- Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love.
- Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done...
- I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.
- There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to…
- It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
- I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns…
- You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your…
- If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to manage to capture…
- All that I really have to recount are observations and notes made during the course of my life as a painter. I ask those who…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle