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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

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I do not seek. I find.

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Action is the foundational key to all success.

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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

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Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

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Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

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The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

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When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

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Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

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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.

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The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

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Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

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One must act in painting as in life, directly.

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Everything you can imagine is real.

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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

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There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

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My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

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What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

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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 that is given to us to understand.

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

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The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

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