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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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People want art. And they are given it. But the less art there is in painting the more painting there is.
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Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.
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While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.
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People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
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Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.
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Despite any will I may have in the matter, what I express interests me more than my ideas.
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The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting. Everything I have ever made was made for the present and with the hope that it would always remain in the present.
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