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The academies of art are nothing but great painting factories: those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.
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If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength, then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it.
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Really superior artists judge without being prejudiced by school, nationality or period. If the artists of north and south exhibit different tendencies, it is good that they are different!
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The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
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When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.
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I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
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Woman are like modern paintings. You can't enjoy them, if you try to understand them.
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An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.
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Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music. In music you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.
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It is the province of art to paint as plastic nature, if there is such a thing, intended her original design, without the defects which the unmanageable materials render inevitable, and free from the ravages which result from a conflict with time.
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