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You’ve got sadness in you, I’ve got sadness in me – and my works of art are places where the two sadnesses can meet, and therefore both of us need to ...more

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It is really one of the most serious faults which can be found with the whole conception of democracy, that its cultural function must move on the bas...more

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I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emo...more

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I would like to say to those who think of my pictures as serene, whether in friendship or mere observation, that I have imprisoned the most utter viol...more

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A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to ...more

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A picture lives by companionship. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the...more

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It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.

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It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, i...more