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Through Education Comes Understanding. Through Understanding Comes True Appreciation. All Children Are Artists. The Problem Is How To Remain An Artist Once He Grows Up.

When I Paint A Woman In An Armchair, The Armchair Is There To Show Illness And Death-or As A Protection.

If Everybody Is Looking For It, Then Nobody Is Finding It. If We Were Cultured, We Would Not Be Conscious Of Lacking Culture. We Would Regard It As Something Natural And Would Not Make So Much Fuss About It. And If We Knew The Real Value Of This Word We Would Be Cultured Enough Not To Give It So Much Importance.

It Means Nothing To Me. I Have No Opinion About It, And I Don't Care.

Why Do You Try To Understand Art? Do You Try To Understand The Song Of A Bird?