One must act in painting as in life, directly

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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail

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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

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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

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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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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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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

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It takes a long time to become young

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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction

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I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money

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