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If I don't paint for one day, I don't feel well physically or mentally.
Mistakes can't be erased, but they move you from your present position.
I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment.
I try to embrace people with love, unconditional love, like Christ did.
I plan to do my next two albums with Lady Gaga . She is quite a talent.
If music sounds dated, it means it wasn't very good in the first place.
a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.
I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.
Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental.
It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.
Tender as a mothers love... And with my mother, that was certainly true.
I am beginning to have more powerful enemies and more envious ones, too.
Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
The body of a beautiful woman is not made for love; it is too exquisite.
Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.
An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Everything important that I have done can be put into a little suitcase.
Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.
Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!
The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.
I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture.
The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain.
While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.
If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
We love a genius for what he leaves and mourn him for what he takes away
I can't ask for more out of life, and the more I learn, the less I know.
No-one will ever sound as good as Judy Garland as far as I am concerned.
But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
It's hard to see things when you're too close. Take a step back and look.
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did
Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.
The visible world only becomes the real world by the operation of thought
Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.
I actually studied cooking and, like, was thinking about becoming a chef.
Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.
Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.
You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.
Words such as truth, art, veracity, or anything are stupid in themselves.
A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.
If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doing it?