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"I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should."
"I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same."
"No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his. That is a sign of strength if it is a question of looking for a stimulus or recognizing mistakes he must avoid."
"I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them."
"Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude."
"The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself."
"What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an old skin and inquire further into the unknown, or at least the not-yet-known-to-myself."
"They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better."
"We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it."
"Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time."
"The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art."
"In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression."
"In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing."
"Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art."
"The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself."
"For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart."
"The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies."
"The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous."
"When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection."
"And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich."
"An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality."
"I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!"
"When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it."
"Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse."
"When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg."
"The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him."
"Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out."
"An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought."
"Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall fall on my feet. It is only later that I begin to estimate more exactly the the effect of my work."
"My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art."
"When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an artist persist in treating subjects that can be established so clearly with the lens of a camera?"
"To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all."
"If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur."
"The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting. Everything I have ever made was made for the present and with the hope that it would always remain in the present."
"I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary."
"In life you throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall."
"In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be."
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