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Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being. You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.
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A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.
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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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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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Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.
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Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
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There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
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I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red. I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.
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