"I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture."

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"I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture."

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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."

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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

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"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."

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"Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own."

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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."

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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."

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"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."

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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."

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"On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism."

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"But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors."

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"It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world."

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"If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary."

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"Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint."

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"This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art."

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"I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them."

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"Nature engenders the science of painting."

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"Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable."

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"The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness."

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