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The faculty of continual transformation... is a profound expression of the dynamic character of the mind
Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.
There was a point in time where the thought of people even talking about me made me anxious. Physically.
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings
I had an amazing instructor, Joseph Gotto , who, as a painter, spoke to me as it - he didn't condescend.
We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.
The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.
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.
When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.
The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.
Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.
My goal is never to copy. Create a new style, clear luminous colors and feel the elegance of the models.
So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.
But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.
The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise.
All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working.
I think when one has talent one finally breaks through; so don't pass up any opportunity to do some work.
To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life
My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.
If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.
I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.
Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.
I found myself in my first art school under the direction of Robert Henri... My life began at this point.
A picture that is beautiful, or that comes off, or that works, looks as if it was all made at one stroke.
Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.
The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter
The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.
Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.
People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.
A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things.
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.
A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.
Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.
I take care of myself. I work out three times a week. I have a trainer, and we just work out for an hour.
For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.
No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely.
As you can see, I am immersing myself in color-I've held back from that until now; and I don't regret it.
Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
Every individual has the potentiality to become enlightened in the course of this life or later existences
As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.
One can do such lovely things with so little. Subjects that are too beautiful end by appearing theatrical.
I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
I shall go so far that people will be seized with terror at the sight of each of my works of 'living' art.