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Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
The religions never wanted an art where you paint only what you see.
One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them.
I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.
The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.
Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.
The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life.
Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative.
Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goûte des secrets
But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.
Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.
Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.
Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.
Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.
I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint.
If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirts.
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.
I'd rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do.
It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.
The square = feeling, the white field = the void beyond this feeling.
Without design, there may be representation, but there can be no art.
If you want to be told what to think, well, I'm not in that business.
Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me.
See the first stroke as a start and everything after that a recovery.
If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.
People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!
It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.
It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues.
Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.
Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
The big artist .. . keeps a sharp eye on Nature and steals her tools.
When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.
I have a very strong passion to sing and paint. I'm really a student.
I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it.
Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.
I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Power is like money. Some know how to get it; few know how to use it.
Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.
Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
We have no limits to our world. We're only limited by our imagination.
Don't be afraid of putting on color, refine the work little by little.
I love America. I lived here too but my links are exclusively Italian.
Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.
The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.