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I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised.
Nature is the fountain's head, the source from whence all originality must spring.
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
Europe has been a place of refuge. Why should it stop with black and brown bodies?
We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.
A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.
The lover is drawn by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which it perceives.
The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.
The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.
Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!
What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is.
The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest.
I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe.
Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light.
My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man.
Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.
We all have romantic nature of one kind or another buried somewhere in our hearts.
I have an awful lot to learn. My dream is to get better and better as I get older.
I don't disrespect the audience. I only sing very well-written, intelligent songs.
I still have a lot to learn. I'm concentrating on learning a lot more about music.
We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles that surround us.
Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.
I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind.
I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.
I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.
One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable.
It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.
I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling.
Painting is such an individual profession. I'm not performing. There's no audience.
Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.
The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light.
It doesn't matter who you fall in love with, as long as you have love in your life.
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth.
I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.
abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.
It would be strange for me to think I'm being ripped off, because that's what I do!
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
We have found a way to bring to millions of people an art that they can understand.
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.