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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions derived from anywhere: from the sky, from the earth, from a piece of paper, from a passing figure, from a spider's web. This is a spider's web. This is why one must not make a distinction between things. For them there are no aristocratic quarterings. One must take things where one finds them.
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Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.
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By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.
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What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you might call a painter's ideal... the kind that's always existed... No. They couldn't care less about that.
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Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits. In art, there is room for all possibilities.
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Art is a lie that helps us to realize the truth.
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Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as a mediator between this strange, hostile world and us, a way of seizing the power by giving form to our terrors as well as our desires.
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What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician? On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly on the alert to the heart-rending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.
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