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We have tried to fit man into abstraction, but he does not fit.
Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted
Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.
For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography
...A long struggle lies in store for me in this field of color.
I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended
Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.
God sends us pieces of art so that we may see ourselves in them
Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad.
A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.
Let's build us a happy, little cloud that floats around the sky.
We artists are a different breed of people. We're a happy bunch.
I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.
Be the holder of your own Nature. It is a joyful responsibility.
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries.
I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.
When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important
To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.
I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.
I'm a terrible technician, and I have a very hard time painting.
I learned from a longtime farmer that pigs enjoy soothing music.
Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labour.
Whatever trips you make, you must still have nature in your eye.
Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.
I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.
There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.
The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.
It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.
Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.
The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.
Every artist's problem today is: What will we do with the human?
Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep.
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?
We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.
If I ever have a conflict between art and nature, I let art win.
I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended.
The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.
When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
The door of the human heart, can only be opened from the inside.
Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.
To see the greatness of a mountain, one must keep one's distance.
If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.
I never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked.