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

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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

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Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

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Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

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We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

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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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Art is a lie that tells the truth.

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Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

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One must act in painting as in life, directly.

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Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

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

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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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Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms, well then think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affect us more or less intensely.

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When I was a child, my mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

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