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- Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
- I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I…
- Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
- ...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
- I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than…
- There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have…
- Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of…
- Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing - yet…
- Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give,…
- I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
- 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…
- 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…
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