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I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people.
The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.
There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.
A line comes into being. It goes out for a walk, so to speak, aimlessly for the sake of the walk.
Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment.
By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.
Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.
I don't like mixed colors that much, like plum color or deep, deep colors that are hard to define.
A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.
There is true color, there is nature without exaggeration, without forced brilliance! He is exact.
I like making work in my studio day in and day out, but I'm not so interested in the business side
I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.
I believe that artists should be part of the culture. I think that my work clearly bears that out.
The way we think about a presidential portrait is one that is imbued with dignity from the outset.
I am interested in evolution within my thinking. I am not interested in the evolution of my paint.
My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.
For the arts epitomize, intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can.
To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.
The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.
Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.
The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.
Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude.
Beyond Brookledge may be the most incredible weekend of entertainment I've experienced in my life.
If you fall asleep on horseback, the horse will stop by the rock. Art is a car. Kitsch is a horse.
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?
Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.
The desire for freedom and equilibrium (harmony) is inherent in man (due to the universal in him).
I can never accomplish what I want - only what I would have wanted had I thought of it beforehand.
You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.
I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.
The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.
A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.
The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?
Warhol had a huge effect on me. It wasn't that I sought it out. It was more of a natural evolution.