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Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.
The way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way itself.
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.
Dying young is the easy way out. It's much harder to keep your edge and keep it going.
Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali.
Painting is profoundly emotional. When I finish a painting, I'm usually extremely sad.
I study nature, and I realize that no matter how much you learn, you can't top nature.
Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you
If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere.
People's love of sweets and guilty feelings about overindulgence are pretty universal.
All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.
The eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to.
To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.
I really think that if I had met Picasso during peacetime, nothing would have happened.
... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.
To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.
Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing.
The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose
I think that at its best you just have to respect each arena for what they can do well.
The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.
The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.
It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions.
Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?
Use and respond to the initial fresh qualities but consider them absolutely expendable.
I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning.
Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
I am a very spiritual person: I could say a Catholic with a strong underpinning of Zen.
The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.
No man, and least of all myself, could ever disentangle the feelings that animated him.
The most important key to a more romantic life: you have to be willing to pay attention
It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.
Every show is different. The public has always been nice to me. I'm fortunate that way.
It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.
One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.
Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.
The laws of the colors are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.
Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising.
In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates.
I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.
Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.
The forces which move the cosmos are not different from those which move the human soul.
Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes.
I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow.