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Each time it’s an attempt to get there. To get to see. To get where you can see.
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You are in an area where knowledge fails. Where you have to advance in ignorance, not even knowing where you are going.
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It was truly revealing. The strength of the intervention, the intensity of colors and the happiness of this work, has never left me.
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I met Beckett at my brother’s place. That was a Big meeting, in capital letters. It was before war started, life was still normal. That time I was very lonely. We saw each other often. Before the war he had published already something, but his fame came in 1953. We never spoke about his work. He was a taciturn man. Sometimes a word escaped from his mouth. Sure, a word you would never forget. It would stick in your head... This friendship with Beckett is the most important experience in my life. He was fully alive for my way of working. What he could express in words, I did with my paintings.
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Yes, I abandoned everything. Painting required it. It was all or nothing.
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Painting is an aid to vision. It turns life, the complexity of life, into something visible. It reveals things that we don’t know how to see.
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The beauty other people create is not for the artists. Artists have to live alone.
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To be true, you have to take the plunge, to touch bottom. But most people want to be in control. They fear the worst. You can’t control anything. What you have to do is let yourself be taken over.. .All the paintings I have made, I was compelled to make. You must never force yourself.
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When you cross any border there is always an uneasy moment when you feel yourself automatically an enemy. Artists don’t belong to any group or country... When you are living the truth, the world no longer exists, events become unimportant. But the way of truth is not easy.. ..if you are on the side of truth, you have no power. That’s why you are always defeated. The power, all the power, is on the side of the world.. .I have been completely absorbed in my adventure. No country, no family, no ties. I didn’t exist anymore. I just had to press on.
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What makes a painting fascinating is its sincerity. Sincerity is such a rare thing. Most people don't dare to be sincere.
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When I look back to a recent painting, I can hardly bear th suffering in it.
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Painting is so stupid, so simple. I paint to get out of the through. I paint my misery.
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In this world that destroys me, the only thing that I can do is to live my weakness. That weakness is my only strength.
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Each painting is linked to a fundamental drama.
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Life is so difficult to catch.
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Art is not for the personal satisfaction of one or the other, but art wants to return all what's in life... Art wants to give back everything what's in our lives. The more comprehensive the artist stands in life the more powerful his work will speak, and therefore a work of art is a measure of the mental size of his creator.
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Of course painting is ridiculous. But it’s the only way I've got to get closer to life.
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Van Gogh.. Fascinating. The fragility of that strong spirit.
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Artists don’t live in the everyday world. That’s why people think they’re an odd bunch.
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A painter is someone who can't use words. His only escape is to be a seer.
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I am in a thousand pieces. Painting somehow makes me whole.
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Paris with its multitude of art directions calls continuously to the deepest penetration and recognition of your inner essence. Only in this way it is possible to create work that refers the time span.
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I don't like talking. I don’t like people talking to me.. .Painting is silence.
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The world of architecture – and of works conceived for architecture – tends towards beauty. True beauty tends towards ugliness and panic.
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