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There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.
It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.
The rôle of the artist is that of a soldier of the revolution.
Only thanks to Pop Art, my painting has become understandable.
If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.
A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.
The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.
I don't start with a color order, but find the colors as I go.
Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.
I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?'
One makes use of pigments, but one paints with one's feelings.
I have a lot of problems with Western European easel painting.
There is no pedestrian culture [in South Central Los Angeles].
I rarely meet a lot of the people who buy and collect my work.
Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.
The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.
Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature.
The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.
I'm nothing else but an artist, I'm sure, and delighted to be.
Drawing is the skeleton of what you do and color is its flesh.
Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.
For me, there are two kinds of women - goddesses and doormats.
I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh.
Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us
A good painter needs only three colours: black, white and red.
Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.
I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.
There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many.
The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death.
Galleries are easier to steal from than the Apple Store, maybe.
I haven't even ever wanted to distort. I isolate and represent.
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.
Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
Wait around and wait around and pretty soon you won't be around
I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything.
No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.
It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint.
Lying on a feather mattress or quilt will not bring you renown.
once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up
He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.