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How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.
I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.
"Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance.
To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.
I've been dealing with epic images, and I realized all of a sudden that I grew up in the age of epics.
I've always been drawn to artists who paint for the everyday person. I love the American illustrators.
I'll call it a day when I die. It's a wonderful occupation for me. I've never worked a day in my life.
It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.
I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.
The teacher does not have to be, although he has to know: he is the mind imagining, not the executant.
You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper.
Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.
Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.
Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad
It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it!
I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.
I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.
I think little things are more powerful because they're more honest, so people feel them more strongly.
It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.
A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.
Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.
Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once.
My assistants generally do all the flowers and all of the decorative work. I concentrate on the figure.
You'll find that street casting in America is a lot different than street casting in different nations.
Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.
In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.
Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.
When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't
I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.
There is an implied warranty that a commissioned work should last a lifetime. There is to be no charge.
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done
The fingerprints of the god who amused himself fashioning them - I can see them on any bone whatsoever.
I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.
I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.
When all hope seems lost and your life's in disarray, just call on your Angel, who will light your way!
I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio.
Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.
Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.
The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong.
I loved Art Tatum! And, through him, and other different jazz musicians, I actually found my technique.
To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.
The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.
Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.
You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream.
For myself, I declare I don't know anything about it. But the sight of the stars always makes me dream.
It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it.
With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself.