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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

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What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallizes into formal ideas but its earlier stages.

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It is not men who are great. It is man who is great. It is not wonderful to be exceptional. It is wonderful to be a man.

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Art should always make people laugh a little and frighten them a little. Anything but bore them. Art has no right to be boring.

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Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right.

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I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action

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What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones.

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I have tried to draw the human effigy (and all the other subjects dealt with in my paintings) in an immediate and effective way without any reference to the aesthetic.

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Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger, but without art we die of boredom.

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There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art no more exists than does curved art yellow art or green art.

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Art does not lie down on the bed that is made for it; it runs away as soon as one says its name; it loves to go incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what it is called.

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