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• True art lies in a reality that is felt.
• My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.
• What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.
• While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
• The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is…
• I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.
• The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.
• The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.
• I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual…
• It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.
• I have a feeling only for shadows
• My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.

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