I should like to be famous and unknown.

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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

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Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

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