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Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.
I think words come between the spectator and the picture.
The things that I paint are things that I know very well.
A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
You are lost the moment you know what the result will be.
To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble.
Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.
Of the original phenomena, light is the most enthralling.
Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit.
Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.
Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.
The most interesting thing about artists is how they live
Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings.
Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!
If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?
So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.
Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.
The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure.
Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting.
How beautiful an old woman's skin is! All those wrinkles!
I think I am beginning to learn something about painting.
In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.
Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual.
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.
I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well.
You can't write my types of books without hurting someone.
When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy.
The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.
Not to appreciate life, all of life, is not to deserve it.
You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.
Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.
My stay in Munich was the scene of my complete liberation.
All artists are now free to express their own personality.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers.
When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.
We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.
For my part, I can't do anything else but what I am doing.
I have my moods, but I can always see something beautiful.
A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions.
The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets
He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry.
Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.
We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.