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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
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One never paints violently enough.
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Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories — and come up with nothing but clichés: life is absurd (or it is not absurd), God is beyond reach (or within reach), etc. You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
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Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.
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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.
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What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.
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A picture lives by its legend, not by anything else.
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The first virtue of a painting is that it be a feast for the eyes.
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Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.
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I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics.
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