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I was brought up a Catholic and was an altar boy.
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
What I need most of all is color, always, always.
The only real influence I've ever had was myself.
Painting is with me but another word for feeling.
We all look at the same object in different ways.
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.
It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.
Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.
Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.
If you don't know what color to take, take black.
There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.
To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.
More than a process, painting is being possessed.
You begin with the possibilities of the material.
The real purpose of painting is to give pleasure.
As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel.
A piece of art is a compact form of the universe.
It helps to know there is going to be continuity.
Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
Art exists only to communicate a spiritual message
I do not paint in front of but from within nature.
Light is the most important person in the picture.
I do not believe in God, yet I believe in Picasso.
Prodigy only feeds on prodigy, fantasy on fantasy.
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
I've always wanted... I wanted to give people joy.
The negative is just as important as the positive.
My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work.
I make no distinction between poetry and painting.
Don't cater to the audience. Inspire the audience.
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.
Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.
Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided.
Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination.
Art doesn't interest me. Only artists interest me.
The Cubists used the figure, but they broke it up.
Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.
Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.