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"To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society."
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."

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"The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!"

"The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men, only the clean can wash the grimy!"

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"Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information."

"I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive."

"I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence."

"An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human."
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