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Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
Colour acts simultaneously with form, but has nothing to do with form.
To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.
Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names.
I do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot canvas.
Common observation and a plain understanding is the source of all art.
There is no purity with regards to the marketplace and art, I believe.
The thought of today cannot be expressed in the language of yesterday.
Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator.
Make an effort to collect the good features from many beautiful faces.
I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.
What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.
What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.
Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.
I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
My joy burns brighter when I tend to the glowing hearth fires of home.
It is not bright colors but good drawing that makes figures beautiful.
One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.
Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion.
What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.
If suffering can be transformed into creativity . . . I want to try it.
I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.
A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it.
To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
There is more sensitivity in technique than in the rest of the picture.
Man was not then considered a good goldsmith unless he could draw well.
Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.
Heaven and earth, advantages and obstacles, conspire to educate genius.
Beauty is the result of clarity and system and not of optical illusion.
Dance looks absurd on film, I think, like little puppets moving around.
A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.
Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence.
In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
In the midst of each epoch, I fully realize that a new epoch will dawn.
From a purely ethnological point of view, I was not a period-born Dada.
When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away.
Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.