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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
One can begin a picture and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all.
I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.
Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.
I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience.
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.
I insist upon 'doing it alone'... I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.
The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness
Anyone who directly and honestly reproduces that force which impels him to create belongs to us.
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.
Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous.
Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle.
Who told you that one paints with colors? One makes use of colors, but one paints with emotions.
The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.
The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.
A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.
'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Painting is an object, but it's also a voice. I don't see them as objects; I see them as voices.
I paint a woman's big rounded buttocks so that I want to reach out and stroke the dimpled flesh.
The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position.
To me the most important thing in a piece of art is the thought. Technique is totally secondary.
I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.
Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.
My whole life was absorbed with my art. I was known by my schoolmates as the kid who could draw.
As a young boy, I did a lot of foolish things. I made a lot of mistakes. And you live and learn.
Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together.
I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.
When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.
Chinese architecture has a complete organic structure; it contains both sensibility and purpose.
The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics.
I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
When I lived in New York, never in my life had I been more mistaken for another than David Chang.
You explore concepts and things that interest you, but you are also exploring inside of yourself.
Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.
Art is everywhere you look for it, hail the twinkling stars for they are God's careless splatters
The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?
A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative . . . or they are crazy.
There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium!
The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.
There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention.