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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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Done Hustle One Liner
The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must admit, not for purely artistic reasons.
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I paint when I cannot photograph.
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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
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Effort Film Paper Waste
My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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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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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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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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An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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