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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."
"They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully."
"That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda."
"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."
"I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose."
"One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts."
"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."
"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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"To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture."
"What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero."
"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."
"Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima."
"Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint."
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