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While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.
For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.
Old age is a hindrance to creativity but cannot crush my youthful spirit.
Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject.
The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.
Steeping my life in beauty brings color to my days and a song to my heart
It's when I let myself get little that I tumble head over heels into joy.
The singers who are the most honest are the ones who become immortalized.
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes.
It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.
Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.
The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.
Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable.
Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.
Nobody realizes that Mormons were the first Americans to settle Las Vegas.
Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery
All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.
Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.
There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves.
The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.
I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
If the artist starts evaluating himself, it’s an enormous block, isn’t it?
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.
I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.
Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
Smells are so powerful and evocative, sometimes stronger than visual cues.
To get anywhere, one must choose one's mistakes, I chose experimental acts.
Ever make mistakes in life? Let's make them birds. Yeah, they're birds now.
It's the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one's done.
Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
I had something in my throat. It felt like I had swallowed the whole world.
Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid.
If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.
In a capitalist system, things are valued by what people will pay for them.
I think it's possible to allow an artist to go beyond his borders and play.
Once I get a project in my head, I start getting really obsessive about it.
I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him.
Designing is not a profession but an attitude... Thinking in relationships.
In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.