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To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.
In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.
...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
I work even in the middle of the day, in the full sunshine, and I enjoy it like a cicada.
This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice.
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
I've always refused requests even from friends to employ a technique I know nothing about.
I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them.
People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it.
The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
I guess I'm not very human. All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house.
Art is eternal, but life is short..I will make up for it now, I have not a moment to lose.
One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in.
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
Most women who have done something with their lives have been disliked by almost everyone.
I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.
France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.
My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy.
If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself.
The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.
Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.
The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them.
Are we taking the drunken drivers off the road only to turn them into drunken pedestrians?
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.
He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.
Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.
If we make mistakes in our first compositions and do not know them, we may not amend them.
The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.
In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society
I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.
The fact is that until I saw paintings as icons, I couldn't see why people painted at all.
All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.
Work is my joy... Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do.
Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'
The more you give yourself to others, the more joy and peace will flow into your own life.
I consider myself a method singer, not a method actor. I applied method acting to singing.
The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.
Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.
If Picasso drips, I drip... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso.
My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
It's enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
If only the weather would improve, there'd be hope of some work, but every day brings rain.
You figure out what you value in this life, and then you go for it. For me, it was freedom.
Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.
It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.