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• The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or…
• Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
• A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.
• Sometimes it seems to me that I am capable of absolutely nothing, but that nature through me can accomplish a great deal.
• The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries…
• Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death.
• As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I…
• There cannot be creation without a lot of energy.
• Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.
• There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every colour holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels…
• Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the…
• Yellow can express happiness, and then again, pain. There is flame red, blood red, and rose red; there is silver blue, sky…

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