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Pierre Soulages Quotes: For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose of a painting and of art in general.
         

For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose of a painting and of art in general.


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It's what I do that teaches me what I'm looking for.

It's what I do that teaches me what I'm looking for.



Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.

Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.



If painting doesn't offer a way to dream and create emotions, then it's not worth it.

If painting doesn't offer a way to dream and create emotions, then it's not worth it.



Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies.

Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies.



I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep painting. That's how I became an artist.

I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep painting. That's how I became an artist.



I never want to stop painting. I'm 94 now. What's my secret? I just keep thinking about the painting I'm going to do tomorrow.

I never want to stop painting. I'm 94 now. What's my secret? I just keep thinking about the painting I'm going to do tomorrow.



I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.

I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.



Black ink was always my favorite. I loved it. And then one day I realized that the only thing I ever wanted to do was to paint.

Black ink was always my favorite. I loved it. And then one day I realized that the only thing I ever wanted to do was to paint.



Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care.

Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care.



I always liked paintings to be walls rather than windows. When we see a painting on a wall, it's a window, so I often put my paintings in the middle of the space to make a wall.

I always liked paintings to be walls rather than windows. When we see a painting on a wall, it's a window, so I often put my paintings in the middle of the space to make a wall.





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I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and things like that.

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The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.

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If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.

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May God grant us the wisdom to discover right, the will to choose it, and the strength to make it endure.

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I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum, then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around.

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