“Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.”
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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