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"I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself."
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"To change reality, change your thoughts and perceptions."

"Real? Real depends upon your perspective, Annabelle. People never see life exactly the same way. The world is what you think it is."

"The worldly life is constantly ablaze. To keep expectation, that it will extinguish, is wrong. So then we too should say to it, 'you can keep on burning!"

"Faeces by any other name would smell as gross."

"In this universe, all we perceive is a virtual reality created by the neurons."

"Reality is perceptual misinterpretation. To change reality, change your perception."
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"In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession."

"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."

"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."

"All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life."

"I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand."

"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!"

"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."

"Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me."
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