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There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.
In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.
Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
I'm continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
I don't want to think that I am going to believe that I am a hell of a genius, or anything like that.
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
But can they [great works] get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.
I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.
I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it.
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.
You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.
I think what I do is find a cliché and try to believe in it, try to get to where I don't laugh at it.
I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.
I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling.
The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen.
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.
To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast.
Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream.
My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture.
Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.
One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
The flow of blessings in our life is directly related to our passing blessings along to someone else.
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.
Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.
Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.
I just hope that when black people look at me, they don't see someone superhuman. They see themselves.
My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good.
Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.
Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.
I had the landscape in my arms as I painted it. I had the landscape in my mind and shoulder and wrist.
I think that the Kehinde Wiley brand is something that I'm working towards expanding and to inclusion.
My work is a contemporary call to arms. It is time to get our mojo back. To rediscover our true north.
If you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. Let us hope that.
It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.
I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.
The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.
Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art.
Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.
The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.
Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.