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I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.
The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.
I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.
People say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man.
I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me.
I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.
A passion for his art, and an eager desire to excel, will more than supply an artist with the place of method.
I think that artists provide questions, not answers. We provide provocations rather than fully formed objects.
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.
Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.
Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.
This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.
In New York in 1915 I bought at a hardware store a snow shovel on which I wrote in advance of the broken arm .
I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened.
The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.
I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.
And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.
I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.
As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.
I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine. Beer is great for basting or marinating meat and fish.
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence.
Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.
There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.
Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.
The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.
Among our articles of lazy hardware, I recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to it.
I really had no program or any established plan. I didn't even ask myself if I should sell my paintings or not.
Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.
Don't help the young too much — it will just weaken them and they'll resent it, and finally start avoiding you.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves.
There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art.
An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.
Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.
But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.
Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge!
When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.
Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.
I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.
This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.