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"I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself."
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"Beautiful trees sometimes bear bitter fruit."
"The perception of reality is something that is constructed by the human mind based on its own needs and knacks."
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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."
"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!"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair."
"In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it."
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