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All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.
Learning is the only thing that never disappoints us.
Threats alone, are the weapons of the threatened man.
The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.
Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.
I only give expression to the instincts from my soul.
All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.
We are all born children- the trick is remaining one.
I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.
A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.
In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.
Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.
The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future.
Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.
I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name.
Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.
And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway
Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
God invented man, and man invented the metric system.
Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.
Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation
If you are creative, you get busier as you get older.
You have to first experience what you want to express
One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.
It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.
The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
As an artist, it's possible to get tired of yourself.
The function of art is to struggle against obligation.
To recognize great talent, we must encourage dreamers.
Use absolutely no pressure. Just like an angel's wing.
One can do something if one can see and understand it.
I still don't know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
Conceive of a picture really as a series of harmonies.
To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.
Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
A woman or a man creating feel very much the same way.
I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.
I think it would be really interesting to paint Obama.
Your brain is much better than you think; just use it!
When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings.
Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.
All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.
Love, Fear, and Esteem, - Write these on three stones.
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.