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"What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war."
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"Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way."
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"In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One."
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"What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war."
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"Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television."
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"I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose."
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"One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts."
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"They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully."
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"That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda."
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"Textbooks are Soviet propaganda."
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"Photographers along with dentists are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out."
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"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."
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"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."
Philosophy

"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary."
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"The people who make art their business are mostly imposters."
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"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist."
Identity

"Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time."
Life

"One must act in painting as in life, directly."
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"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
Wisdom

"Good artists copy, great artists steal."
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