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I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.
Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?
If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.
Trees don't grow even, they don't grow straight just however it makes them happy.
I don't intimidate anyone. Instead, I try to get people to believe in themselves.
When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.
I always use given and simple elements, I don't want to add or subtract anything.
Keep your eye on your inner world and keep away from ads, idiots and movie stars.
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
Each drawing that I've done, I have found. Meaning, I see a plant I want to draw.
Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.
I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.
Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye.
When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.
My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldnt be able to say anything.
All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.
What is a well-chosen collection of pictures, but walls hung round with thoughts?
There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
My works are the issue of simple and plain experience which is the true mistress.
Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.
We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.
The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.
Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.
Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer.
Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
I'm Irish in the mythic, romantic sense, but in the living sense, I'm a Londoner.
When I find my focus and keep my balance- I find that all is right with my world.
So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!
Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it.
The English certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praising themselves.
I think that being an artist is more an approach to life than an approach to work.
It is the brushwork of the right value and color which should produce the drawing.
I couldn't get used to the community and social life of a theatrical set designer.
My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.
Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.
The nude, if you tackle it, is a very fascinating subject, especially for a woman.