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I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.
A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
[In developing your potential] ... I don't develop; I am
If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?
They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.
Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!
So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.
Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers.
For my part, I can't do anything else but what I am doing.
One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?
When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.
We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.
There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is.
It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.
Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.
If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake.
The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.
Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.
To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
For me, there are two kinds of women - goddesses and doormats.
Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.
For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography
Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.
Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.
I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.
What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.
Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more.
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.
A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.