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I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".
How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious.
I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.
Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.
All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.
It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.
Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.
Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
I begin with movement... I believe that all human visual experiences are born from movement..
An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.
I would say for everyday I build buildings or houses like a bricklayer with canvas and paint.
The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.
For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem.
My brush-strokes start in nothing and they end in nothing, and in-between you find the image.
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one's own.
He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.
As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does
If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!
You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it.
My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.
We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.
I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!
Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.
And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.
My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.
What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.
What if everything in a museum is crap? It's entirely possible; it's not the end of the world.
I'm happiest when I feel that several almost opposing sensations are present at the same time.
What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart
The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing.
Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.
Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.
Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.
Your style is who you are when you’re not trying to be clever or better than you actually are.
Whether or not the artist can fulfill a social function is a question that remains unanswered.
I love the idea of engaging religious sentiment and how that vocabulary has evolved over time.
No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.
A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.