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• The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility.
• Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
• All good ideas arrive by chance.
• My paintings are not meant to be tasted.
• And Loplop, bird superior, has transformed himself into flesh without flesh and will dwell among us...
• The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.
• Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does…
• Every normal human being (and not merely the 'artist') has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it is merely…
• Who made art history? Not the most reasonable people. The mad men did. If painting is the mirror of a time, it…
• Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings.
• I have never seen a beautiful painting of a beautiful woman. But you can take an ugly woman and make a beautiful…
• I succeeded in simply attending at the birth of all my works.

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