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Spanish, 1881–1973
"Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?"
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French, 1869–1954
"I don't paint things; I only paint the difference between things."
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French, b. Romania, 1876–1957
"What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things..."
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Dutch, 1872–1944
"Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture."
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French, 1881–1955
"The object in modern painting must become the main character and overthrow the subject."
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American, b. France, 1881–1968
"I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products."
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Italian, b. Greece, 1888–1978
"To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits..."
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Spanish, 1893–1983
"I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music."
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American, 1898–1976
"The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Once you imagine it, you can be realistic about reproducing it."
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American, 1911-1988
"Practically all great artists accept the influence of others."
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American, b. France, 1911-2010
"Art is manipulation without intervention."
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American, 1912–1956
"It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said."
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American, b. 1930
"Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither."
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American, 1928–1987
"Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?"
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