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Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
Everyone is going to see things differently - and that's the way it should be.
Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.
Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.
I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.
We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.
I'm fully capable of multitasking certain conceptual concerns within the work.
Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.
A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.
It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.
I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.
For me, the 'Three Stoppages' was a first gesture liberating me from the past.
The evolution of the New Era rests on the cornerstone of Knowledge and Beauty.
Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?
In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.
I prefer to hike in nature, give lectures, or be with family when not working.
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
"Benedetto" means the "blessed one" and I feel that I have truly been blessed.
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.
I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.
Life is not long for anybody, and the problem is only to make something of it.
Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
As a result of the feminist revolution, 'feminine' becomes an abusive epithet.
I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps.
When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can't think any more.
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
Thank God, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.
Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.
I taught myself to paint African-Americans, mostly people roughly my skin tone.
I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist.
It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.