- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The danger is in pleasing an immediate public: the immediate public that comes around you and takes you in and accepts you and gives you success and everything. Instead of that, you should wait for fifty years or a hundred years for your true public. That is the only public that interests me.
- Product
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a product of two poles - there's the pole of the one who makes the work, and the pole of the one who looks at it. I give the latter as much importance as the one who makes it.
- Nov 07, 2020
A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
What would I do with money? I have enough for my needs. I don't want any more. If I had a lot, I would have to care for it, worry about it.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since Courbet, it's been believed that painting is addressed to the retina. That was everyone's error. The retinal shudder! Before, painting had other functions: it could be religious, philosophical, moral... our whole century is completely retinal, except for the Surrealists, who tried to go outside it somewhat.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy.
- Nov 07, 2020
Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I happen to have been born a Cartesian. The French education is based on a sequence of strict logic. You carry it with you.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I refused to accept anything, doubted everything. So, doubting everything, I had to find something that had not existed before, something I had not thought of before. Any idea that came to me, the thing would be to turn it around and try to see it with another set of senses.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I put a bicycle wheel on a stool, the fork down, there was no idea of a 'ready-made' or anything else. It was just a distraction. I didn't have any special reason to do it, or any intention of showing it or describing anything.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't been in the Louvre for twenty years. It doesn't interest me because I have these doubts about the value of the judgments which decided that all these pictures should be presented to the Louvre instead of others which weren't even considered.
- Photography
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why are all the artists so dead-set on distorting? It seems to be a reaction against photography, but I'm not sure.
- Landscape
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- Nov 07, 2020