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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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The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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Future One Liner Trick Truth
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
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 never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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Done Hustle One Liner
An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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Creation Desire Motivation Original
I paint when I cannot photograph.
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Option Paint Photograph
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Myself Nature Photography Vision
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination. I photograph the things I don’t want to paint, things that are already in existence.
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Existence Imagination Myself Paint Photograph
Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Information Inspirational Myself Personal Prefer
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
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
I am not going to be dictated to by the size of the camera. I use everything from an 8 x 10 to a 35-mm. But I don’t use these modern cameras which break down all the time !
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Camera Direction Leadership Time
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
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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Affair Artist Hands World Worst

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