All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superflous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.


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One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite d...
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When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. A...
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I don't paint things the way I see them, but the way I think them.
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One starts to get young at sixty, and then it's too late
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth ...
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When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you beco...
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The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.
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If i wanted to become a monk, I would have ultimately become the Bishop.If i wanted to become a sold...
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely in...
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Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized. People just don't have that much vision.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child
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What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such paint...
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There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats
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Basically the French are all peasants.
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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
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Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. A...
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is ...
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To draw, you must close your eyes and sing
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It took me a lifetime.
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I used to draw like Raphael, but it has taken me a whole lifetime to learn to draw like a child
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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I wanted to be a painter, and I became Picasso,
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My work is like a diary. To understand it, you have to see how it mirrors life.
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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better...
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Ah, good taste--What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
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It takes a long time to grow young.
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Love is the greatest refreshment in life
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