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The picture is not thought out and determined beforehand, rather while it's being made it follows the mobility of thought.
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The picture is not thought out and determined beforehand, rather while it's being made it follows the mobility of thought.
If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.
If you're trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
I paint things as I think of them, not as I see them.
The secret of many of my deformations, which many people do not understand, is that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the lines in a painting: one line attracts the other and at the point of maximum attraction the lines curve in toward the attracting point and form is altered.
What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an old skin and inquire further into the unknown, or at least the not yet known to myself.
Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should ascribe no more importance than so many things in nature which charm us but which we do not explain to ourselves.
If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should.