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Never join an organization.
Evidence exhausts the truth.
Art upsets, science reasures.
Art disturbs, science reassures.
Art is a wound turned into light.
With age, art and life become one.
Out of limitations, new forms emerge
To work from nature is to improvise.
Truth exists; only lies are invented.
I like the rule that corrects emotion.
Art is made to disturb, science reassures.
Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.
Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.
In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.
Art is made to trouble but science reassures.
Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
One must not imitate what one wants to create.
It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.
Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.
Whatever is in common is true; but likeness is false.
The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.
I do not believe in things. I believe in relationships.
The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.
A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.
The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.
I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything.
I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships.
Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
Colour acts simultaneously with form, but has nothing to do with form.
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
There is more sensitivity in technique than in the rest of the picture.
Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.
In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.
I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.
Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.
Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.
Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.
One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable.
Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.
Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.
Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.
La ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented.
Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.
Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.
It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.
It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible.
Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.