“Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.”
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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.