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If the affairs of the world were put in the hands of the screwball artists, it couldn’t be in a worse state than it is now !

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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.
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Art Creation Human Mindset Nature See Work
All critics should be assassinated.
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Assassination Criticism One Liner
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Myself Nature Photography Vision
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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Determination Dreams Myself Object Realization Record
A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.
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Amount Employment Himself Ideas Material
In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.
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Automobile Declare Horse
Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !
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Fact Mindset Myself Quote
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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Dreams Drive Imagination Myself Patient Photograph Unconscious
My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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Design Inspirational Myself Reflection Work
Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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Doctor Greatness Surgeon
When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
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I paint when I cannot photograph.
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Option Paint Photograph
Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask ‘why’. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Curiosity Information Myself Nature Technique Willing
An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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Creation Desire Motivation Original
I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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Existence Myself Paint Photograph Wish

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