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Pierre Alechinsky is a renowned French artist known for his unique abstract expressionist style. Born in October 19, 1927, his artistic career spanned multiple art movements, including surrealism, abstract expressionism, and minimalism. Alechinsky's works are characterized by their rich colors and fluid lines, and he has worked in various mediums such as painting, printmaking, and sculpture.

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

Action Painter Abstract Immediate Action

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“Only during the action is the idea of matter influenced.”

Ideas Matter Action

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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.”

Giving Two Artist Lines Teacher Teaching Style Students Shapes Opposites Accounts Paint Variety Explanation Colour Unexpected Being An Artist Inexplicable Being A Teacher

Author:Pierre Alechinsky

“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 a picture.”

Hands Beautiful Imagination Rely Construction Concrete Canvas Shocking

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“When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting, he finds in this expression the same effect - I would even say the same picture - that he had unconsciously acquired by his habit to experience reality intensely.”

Thinking World Reality Form Fantasy Effects Painting Expression Habit Painter Unprecedented

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

Form Modern Satisfied Painter Spots Meaningless Coincidence Modernism

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“People think you can get out your canvas and paint any time you have a free moment. You can't. Commercial art and painting are entirely different. Painting takes a different mental approach. You have to get the right attitude, the right mood.”

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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 have to face himself as a solitary creature enclosed in a space of four walls... and that he will have to be a self-propelled being, with no one at is side.”

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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. In fact, solitude then becomes a kind of companion.”

Kind Facts Courses Solitude Companion Passages Canvas Diminish Passage Of Time

Author:Pierre Alechinsky

“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 ourselves without fear of immersing ourselves in the earth, the sea, fire or air.”

Reality Earth Spirituality Perfect Fire Air Sea Discovery Perfect One

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

Mean Doe Values Method Dimensions Expansion Deliberate

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

May Used Evidence Paint

Book:Alechinsky: Paintings and Writings by Pierre Alechinsky

Source: Alechinsky: Paintings and Writings by Pierre Alechinsky

“When I paint, I liberate monsters They are the manifestations of all the doubts, searches and groping for meaning and expression which all artists experience One does not choose the content, one submits to it.”

Doe Artist Doubt Expression Paint Monsters Manifestation Submit

Author:Pierre Alechinsky

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Born: October 19, 1927
Known for: Artist
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