Word After Word

“I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. That is why I number them. It’s an experiment in time.”

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“To know what you want to draw, you have to begin drawing it. If it turns out to be a man, I draw a man. If it’s a woman, I draw a woman. There’s an old Spanish proverb: if it has a beard, it’s a man; if it doesn’t have a beard, it’s a woman.

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“I have a little blank sheet of paper in front of me, it runs through my head all the time. Despite any will I have in the matter, what I express interests me more than my ideas.”