An original is a creation
motivated by desire.
Any reproduction of an original
is motivated be necessity '
It is marvelous that we are
the only species that creates
gratuitous forms.
To create is divine, to reproduce
is human.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.