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