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I have never painted a recent picture.
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Myself 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
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
The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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Future One Liner Trick Truth
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
To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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Harm Members Ourselves Paint Society
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I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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Done Hustle One Liner
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
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All critics should be assassinated.
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Assassination Criticism One Liner
I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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Choice Dreams Ideas Myself Photography
I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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Economic Myself Person Work
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
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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Genius Himself Power Satisfaction
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

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