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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

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Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yel...more

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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

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When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a ...more

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When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpen...more

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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

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Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.

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Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situatio...more

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Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.