"Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe."

Creativity, Idea, Belgium, Countries, Europe

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"Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe."

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"I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks."

Politics, America, Fight, Freedom, Weapons

"I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech."

Age, Son, Poor

"I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America."

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"From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so."

Army,

"Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia."

Army, Occupations, Years

"Che came in 1963, shortly after I had come to power."

Power,

"These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt."

Nation, Countries

"Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties."

Power,

"The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France."

People, Army, Fight, First

"My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation."

Life, Country, Struggle

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"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else."

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"One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail."

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"To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture."

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"I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it."

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"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."

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"One must act in painting as in life, directly."

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"Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong."

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"Art is the objectification of feeling."

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