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I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
It is easy to finish things. Nothing is simpler. Never does one lie so cleverly as then.
The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function.
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.
Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.
When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in.
Art is many things but, directly or indirectly, it always describes the human condition.
When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.
Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects
I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.
There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture.
I believe a radiant, light-filled tomorrow should be normal to the experience of living.
It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.'
I've been very fortunate. I'm doing what I love, and I'm getting away with it, you know?
I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter.
Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.
The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.
Nothing gets you behind faster than trying to keep up with people who are already there.
My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.
This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.
To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.
I know some of the richest and most powerful men in the world, and they're jealous of me.
I paint very quickly. And it just, it almost comes out of me like it's almost my therapy.
I do not belong to any school, I simply want to do something that is personal to my self.
Culture is for old people. When you're young you have your body, and that's all you need.
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
Nothing can come of nothing; he who has laid up no materials can produce no combinations.
He's a great - he's a great professor. He retired recently, but.But Peter Halley as well.
Art is completely subjective. It's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit.
An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.
Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.
Among the great things which are found among us the existence of Nothing is the greatest.
He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.
It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.
Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another.
A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.
Losing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems.
Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.
You have to give in to what the paint says... You have to do what it's telling you to do.
It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.
The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between the subjective and the objective.
Somehow don't be bored, but if you must, use it in action. Use its destructive potential.
For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.
In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.