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Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's just the opposite. I must account for every line, shape and colour and I am forced to give an explanation of the inexplicable and account for the variety of styles the students present.

Pierre Alechinsky
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The main thing is that we are part of the reality in ourselves to perfect one's power of discovery and that leads to the discovery of our organic our…

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Only during the action is the idea of matter influenced.

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Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.

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Those who largely rely on their hands and the beautiful or shocking traces of the imagination that they leave on the canvas ...CONCRETE... one builds…

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Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can be an agreeable passage of time. I…

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The deliberate expansion of means and methods does not automatically bring a new dimension of value.

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Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.

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A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art school with other students. He does not yet know that one day he will …

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Everything that you paint may be used as evidence against you.

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