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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love. There are simply different ways of doing it.

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

Self Portrait (1963)

To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

Originals Graphics Multiples (1973)

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Each of these private teachers who work for pay ... inculcates nothing else than these opinions of the multitude which they opine when they are assembled and calls this knowledge wisdom.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël De l’Allemagne [Germany (1813)

Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

Louis Althusser Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968)

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