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If it's good, it's mine. If it's bad, it's a fake.
Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy.
There are more copies than originals among people.
To be young, really young, takes a very long time.
Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
Art makes something a lot more visible or audible.
Each work has to be done as intensely as possible.
If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
When the critics come around it's always too late.
Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.
What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.
My God, I'd rather go to Europe than go to heaven.
I communicate my innermost perceptions through art.
As long as i live i will have control over my being
I get madder and madder on giving back what I feel.
Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain.
A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back.
The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.
If the thing loved is base, the lover becomes base.
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Whoever does not respect life, does not deserve it.
The human being, creature of eyes, needs the image.
That painter who has no doubts will achieve little.
We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.
What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art
Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements.
A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Without great solitude no serious work is possible.
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?
Art is the most important way of recording history.
Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.
There Is No Failure. It's Only Un-Finished Success.
For me there is no difference between art and life.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.
A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
The goal of art-making in general is communication.
The eye seems to be responding to something living.
Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.
As long as I live I will have control over my being.
Think about a cloud. Just float around and be there.