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- When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have…
- The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future.
- I have had no true friends, only lovers.
- What do you think an artist is An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is…
- I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which…
- I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.
- The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.
- You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten,…
- As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A…
- We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.
- An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.
- When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.
- That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working.
- Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do,…
- The only thing that's important is the legend created by the picture, and not whether it continues to exist itself.
- ...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's…
- So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.
- All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one…
- He was an Afghan Hound name Kabul. Since him I have had other Afghan Hounds.... Perhaps I am looking for his ghost. He is the…
- In the end there is only Matisse.
- Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall fall on my…
- If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.
- If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and…
- By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has…
- The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who…
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