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| It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child | | Uncategorized | |
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| Love is the greatest refreshment in life | | Love | |
| Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt. | | Uncategorized | |
| Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| My work is like a diary. To understand it, you have to see how it mirrors life. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| Now there is fame! Of all / hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public / fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true. | | Uncategorized | |
| Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors. | | Uncategorized | |
| One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite -- that particular peach is but a detail. | | Uncategorized | |
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| One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different. | | Art; Painting | |
| One starts to get young at sixty, and then it's too late | | Uncategorized | |
| Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. | | Uncategorized | |
| Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. | | Uncategorized | |
| Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. | | Painting | |
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| Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. | | Uncategorized | |
| Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun. | | Art; Painting | |
