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"I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!"
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"I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do."
"Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it."
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"Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair."
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"All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure."
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