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I do not repudiate any of my p...

I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there.

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My pictures are made up of fou...

My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another

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The Barnes Foundation is the o...

The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.

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Modern art spreads joy around ...

Modern art spreads joy around by its color, which calms us.

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It would be a mistake to ascri...

It would be a mistake to ascribe this creative power to an inborn talent. In art, the genius creator is not just a gifted being, but a person who has succeeded in arranging for their appointed end, a complex of activities, of which the work is the outcome. The artist begins with a vision Ђ' a creative operation requiring an effort. Creativity takes courage.

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There is nothing more difficul...

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
Ђў 'Expression, for me, does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive; the place occupied by the figures, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything has its share.

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One must, of course, have one'...

One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.

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Precision is not reality...

Precision is not reality

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The splitting up of color [as ...

The splitting up of color [as Impressionists did] brought the splitting up of form and contour . . . Everything is reduced to a mere sensation of the retina, but one which destroys all tranquility of surface and contour. Objects are differentiated only by the luminosity that is given them.

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If I close my eyes, I see thin...

If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.

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I don't paint women, I paint p...

I don't paint women, I paint pictures. . . What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I put eyes, a nose, a mouth, there isn't much use; on the contrary it paralyses the imagination of the spectator, and obliges us to see the person in a certain way.

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You want to paint? First of a...

You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.

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When a painting is finished, i...

When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend.

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Beauty comes from the balance ...

Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.

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What I am after, above all, is...

What I am after, above all, is expression.

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Drawing is . . . not an exerci...

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

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The essential thing is to work...

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.

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An artist is an explorer....

An artist is an explorer.

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Creation is the artist's true ...

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

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It has always bothered me that...

It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else

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