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The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
Art is about life and it can’t really be about anything else.
In the era of globalization, maintaining cultural identity is more important than ever.
I don’t really have studios. I wander around around people’s attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.
The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
"I'm not trying to fool anyone into thinking it's a photograph. I'm trying to make a painting that has its own reality."
Reality is always richer than any idea we can have of it.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.
Art belongs to everybody and nobody. Art belongs to all time and no time. Art belongs to those who create it and those who savor it. Art no more belongs to the people or the time than it belongs to the critics or the collectors.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
La liberté, c'est le droit de faire tout ce que les lois permettent.
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.