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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.
Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy.
Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.
I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.
I thought I'd be a chef by night and paint by day. Now I just have fabulous dinner parties.
In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole.
For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.
It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them.
All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?
The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
Imitators? All right! Disciples if you like. But disciples be damned. It's not interesting.
In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.
Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.
I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.
The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic.
The great thing about doing a show in New York is that you can work until the night before.
I get up, and boy, I can't wait to paint and study music and keep learning. I just love it.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?
Nature won't be summoned to order and won't be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.
It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies.
Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings.
I just want to make it clear that I admit that that's rapey behavior, but I am not a rapist.
I know how to paint... In a way there is a boredom there because a lot of the magic is gone.
We are not responsible for what we do; we are ignorant of our acts until we accomplish them.
I don’t like the gringos at all. They are very boring and all have faces like unbaked rolls.
They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it.
There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.
We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.
An eye critically nice can only be formed by observing well-colored pictures with attention.
A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives.
Painting does more than just point to things. The very act of pointing is a value statement.
Painting has the ability to communicate something about the sitter that gets to his essence.
With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.
Test knowledge through experience, be prepared to make mistakes, and be persistent about it.
In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.
My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.
The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.
People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...
An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.
For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart
The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.
Every piece of art will be if it's lucky enough to be dug up, if there's anything to dig up.
I've never thought sitting around worrying helps anything, except to help shorten your life.
There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.