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“I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.”

Politics War Painting Myself
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Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

Understand Modern Enjoy Painting
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They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

Reality Thought Dream Own
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Being in the studio, it's more of a controlled environment, where you can be Salvador Dali and sit back and look at the painting. And you can go, 'Ah, you know what? Maybe a little bit more red over here...maybe add some blue over here.' You can sit back and look at the painting.

Blue Studio Environment Painting
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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Love Eye Mind Blind
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and, also, old films.

Also Cubism Films Happy
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It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

Black Colored Happened Might
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You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.

Angry Bitter Cancer Host
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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 be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Child Soldier General Monk
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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 sun.

Spot Sun Art Transform
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If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!

Wild Horse Paint Wildness
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Diary Way Keep Paint
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The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

World Paint Sense Picture
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

Paint Child Took Lifetime
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We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

Camp Artist World Art
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Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

Serve Paint Door Open
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Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.

Energy Potential Waste Average
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Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.
Blind Feel Man Painter
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I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

Arts Back Felt Just
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With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

Experience Thought Choice Paint
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Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

Anyone Blue Fields Green
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I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up.

Painting Racist Black President
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Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all of this. I think work is the best.

Painting Children Fulfilled Horrible
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It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

Paint Small Want World
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Constructs Painter Photographer
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The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.

Begins Art Frame Humble
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Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

Painting Silence Thought Music
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Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

True Art Genuine Virtuosity
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Beauty Bliss Charming Colors
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At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.

Awareness Bare Being Beneath
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From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.

Algebra Being Child Desire
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Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.

Awareness Bare Being Beneath
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I don't covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren't worth a fortune, and money is of little interest.

Covet Fortune Images Interest
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Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, 'Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,' and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.

Blue Color Exact Field
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Able Become Being Flowers
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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

Artist Carries Composition Head
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I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillere for which I've done a few bad rough sketches, but it is a dream. Renoir, who has just spent two months here, also wants to do this painting.

Bad Baths Done Dream
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The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

Any Being Conscious Copies
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Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

Attributes Colour Concerned Darkness
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The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

Always Colour Front Images
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The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

Below Far Invisible Musician
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The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

Activity Art Map Mechanical
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I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.

Always Band High Painting
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Architecture Dress Eighty Hundred
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I believe we create our own lives. And we create it by our thinking, feeling patterns in our belief system. I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas.

Belief Believe Born Canvas
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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Cannot Hear Means Paint
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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Disregard Duty Faith Opinion
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Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

Derives Life Own Painter
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When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Go Need Out Paint
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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Feeling Important Language Listen
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