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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
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Everything you can imagine is real.
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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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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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It takes a long time to become young.
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
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Learn the rules like a professional, so you can break them like an artist.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.
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Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
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The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
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Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents.
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place.
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Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do its bidding.
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Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
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To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
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Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
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When I don’t have red, I use blue.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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Art is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something.
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others.
