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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. . .

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I realized that one cannot reveal oneself without mannerism, without some evident trace of one's personality. But all the same one should not go too far in that direction.

Evident, Oneself, Personality, Revelations, Should
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Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Art, Truth, Lying, Lies, Exists

To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm. . . If there is no mystery, then there is no poetry, the quality I value above all else in art.

Art, Explain, Harm, Irreparable Harm, Poetry, Quality

I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness. . I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression. Nature is mere a pretext for decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to express the absolute, not merely the factitious woman.

Absolute, Art, Skill, Skills, Weight, Woman

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

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The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.

Color, Fact, Goal, Pictorial, Thinking, Thinks
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