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Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.
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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.
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Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
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A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters,…
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In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for…
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I am a great artist and I know it. It's because I am that I have endured such sufferings.
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When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.
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Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude,…
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Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and…
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Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.
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A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure…
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Civilization is what makes you sick.
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When one is painting one does not think.
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Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.
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In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.
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It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems…
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It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with…
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Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration.…
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Life is like a beautiful painting. One where you can create your own masterpiece.
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