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In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.
As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.
We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.
It is never difficult to see images – when the principle of the image is embedded in the soul.
What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.
I had not thought that I was doing wrong; I had never taken so many things into consideration.
One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.
I refuse to be in this world by myself. I want an open commitment from the rest of the people.
As a child, the most important people in my life were my pet rabbit and Mary, mother of Jesus.
I want to try to prove that at 100, I could sing as well as I was singing when I was 45 or 43.
I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me...a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze.
Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.
I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.
Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.
I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.
I can only paint in India. Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque India belongs only to me.
People might look at you a bit funny, but it's okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different.
I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience
The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
Graffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive.
Being in love is dangerous because you talk yourself into thinking you've never had it so good.
A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
The cafes bore me; going downstairs is a nuisance. Painting and sleeping - that's all there is.
In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.
When I want to draw a camel I no longer limit myself, as I once did, to looking only at camels.
It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.
Because of this the representation I'm interested in is of those things only the eye can touch.
The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.
Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.
Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.
How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
I am afraid to end up being in need to sell canvases - in other words, to be a society painter.
The two sides of the equation are the same. We have a tautology. The definition is meaningless.
Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
And I can just see that sometimes the technique is blasting powder rather than steady struggle.
Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.
I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
It's the procedures in and for themselves that interest me. The picture isn't really necessary.
Our most important legacy will be the contributions we make to the lives of other human beings.
Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.
Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility.