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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.