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If I had known there was such...

If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic Calligraphy was there ages before I was.

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Whatever the source of emotio...

Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands.

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Paintings are but research an...

Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.

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The trouble is, we've been ta...

The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altimira!

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I go for a walk in the forest...

I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

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How often have I found that w...

How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.

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What I achieve the first day ...

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.

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When we did Cubist paintings,...

When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one laid down a course of action for us, and our friends the poets followed our endeavour attentively but they never dictated it to us.

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I don't own any of my own pai...

I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.

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I have had no true friends, o...

I have had no true friends, only lovers.

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Photography has arrived at th...

Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?

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If I paint a hammer and sickl...

If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.

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A good picture, any picture, ...

A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades.

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No, painting is not interior ...

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

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Forcing yourself to use restr...

Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance.

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What one does is what counts....

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

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To me there is no past or fut...

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.

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A picture is not thought out ...

A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change.

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...why did Plato say that poe...

...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

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Everyone wants to understand ...

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

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