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To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.
Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.
The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me.
The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.
The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.
There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.
My only strength is finding something where most people would find nothing.
Before he goes into the water, a diver cannot know what he will bring back.
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.
To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.
When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.
We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing.
The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.
A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium.
I always have searched for a point of view that a participant could change.
With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.
Grant me paradise in this world; I'm not so sure I'll reach it in the next.
I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.
I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.
It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.
Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
I think only of my painting, and if I were to drop it, I think I'd go crazy.
I would've liked to have been Poussin, if I'd had a choice, in another time.
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.
I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.
True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me.
In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.
All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.
I think of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on the surface.
So much of the history of painting is the propaganda of self-aggrandizement.
For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.
Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.
The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it.
Drawing at its best is not what your eyes see but what our mind understands.
The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.
Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.
It is not important to make many pictures but that I have one picture right.
An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.
Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.
My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do
Every city I go to is an opportunity to paint, whether it's Omaha or Hawaii.
Lady Gaga is the Picasso of the entertainment world. She's very intelligent.