Quote #30

Originality is merely an illusion.

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  1. Only those who attempt the absurd... will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... Let me go upstairs and check.
  2. Talent and all that are really for the most part just baloney. Any schoolboy with a little aptitude can perhaps draw better than I; but wha…
  3. I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms, even though that is how it somet…
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  5. I think I have never yet done any work with the aim of symbolizing a particular idea, but the fact that a symbol is sometimes discovered or…
  6. We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
  7. I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
  8. What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

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