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Focusing isn't just an optical activity; it is also a mental one.
Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.
The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe.
What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything.
Try everything that can be done.... Learn your own possibilities.
So few of us really think. What we do is rearrange our prejudges.
I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I'll paint one.
Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.
Ugliness corrupts not only the eyes, but also the heart and mind.
It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create.
Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience.
When I hesitate, I do not paint. When I paint, I do not hesitate.
Why must we be eternally on our knees before the Kants and Hugos?
I grew up in South Central Los Angeles, where people are in cars.
I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work.
Without good drawing, the foundation of a painting will collapse.
A dwelling should be not a retreat from space, but life in space.
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.
Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.
You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.
Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more.
The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
The most important question facing the planet is: Is it worth it?
Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.
Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place
If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.
There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning.
The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.
I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.
Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.
If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective
Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.
Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line.
If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.
I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.
I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
As long as art lives never shall I accept that men are truly dead.
For us Icelanders, the Sagas are like the Bible, only much better.