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Please don't make me a joke... I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one. I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity.
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Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realized that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
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Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.
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Nonsense is not tolerated round the stage.
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Everyone wants to understand painting. Why not try to understand the songs of the birds?
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If we let fashion, love of innovation, and an alleged scientific spirit tempt us to surrender the native quality of our own art, the free natural certainty of our work and perception, our bright golden light, then we are simply being stupid and senseless.
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The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.
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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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Artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to a conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake.
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There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old. The painter qualities are carried to the highest point in his work: what he does is done, through and through; when he paints eyes, they are lit with the fire of life.
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