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A great painting is a great painting.

Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.

I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.'

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it, and have for all of history.

My popularity has to do with the divorce between modern art, where everything is obscure, and the viewer who often feels he needs a professor to tell them whether it's good or not. I believe a painting has to talk directly to the viewer, with composition, color and design, without a professor to explain it.