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I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.
To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life
It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting.
Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.
As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.
Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life.
The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.
I enjoy inventing things out of fun. After all, life is a game, not a career.
I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.
I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow.
Man needs color to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.
To be right is the most terrific personal state that nobody is interested in.
I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.
In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.
I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.
A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea.
A gentleman's park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.
The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.
One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.
If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.
The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time.
What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.
My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.
I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?
Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.
The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.
I am curious to see what happens in the next world to one who dies unshriven.
You need to have an idea of those who are going to buy your products/services
I wouldn't mind people saying, "You can't do this because this isn't enough."
I started realizing I have enough history that some of it has been forgotten.
Art is a way of expression that has to be understood by everyone, everywhere.
Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future
For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
Alas, the very name of picture produces a sadness of heart I cannot describe.
My life shines with God's radiant blessings when my heart is the color of joy
I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.
I don't look down to an audience. I look up to them. They respond to quality.
I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.
To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.
Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash.
The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.
I know of no such thing as genius, genius is nothing but labor and diligence.