“I don't paint to live, I live to paint.”
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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.
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The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
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