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Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely...
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of...
One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it.
Source: In...
What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea -- possessing them -- that what...
Experience has two things to teach: The first is that we must correct a great deal; the second that we must not...
Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
Source: In Artists in Quotation,...
The source of genius is imagination alone, . . . the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or...
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even...
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
Source:...
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's...
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great...
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That...
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of...
It is either easy or impossible.
Source: Reply when asked if he found it hard to...
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen...
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his...
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of...
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any...
The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.
Source: Diary of...