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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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