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I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs.
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.
If I succeed in putting some warmth and love into the work, then it will find friends. Carrying on working is the
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.
That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.
If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.
Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.
Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.
Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season.
I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
If you're eating or drinking something made from cow's milk, it's because a calf chained in a box somewhere isn't.
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
What I would like in my painting is simply a spray of colour that hangs like a cloud, but does not lose its shape.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals.
It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living, in fact.
I'm not at all sure that the concept of the readymade isn't the most important single idea to come out of my work.
Design may be the logical solution to a problem, but it's never a formula. Design grows out of clarity of purpose.
Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.
If I were to sign it now, I'd be committing forgery. I'd be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922.
Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.
The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.
I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art.
When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.
Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest.
There are many prejudices about art, and first among them is that it is a skill and that there are definite rules.
A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.
The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.
One day Boudin said to me, 'Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.' I took his advice.
Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.
Subject matter must be normal in the sense that it does not appear sought after so much as simply happening to one.
If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.
The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.
To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.
My opinion of art is that a man should have love for it, because my idea is that he paints from his heart and mind.
It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one.
All art is advertising. It stands for a particular point of view. Art that exploits badness is advertising badness.
There's a quality of life in Maine which is this singular and unique. I think. It's absolutely a world onto itself.
In my work, I want to create an understanding, not about what a painting looks like but about what a painting says.
Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.
Everything comes from everything, and everything is made out of everything, and everything returns into everything.
The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.
In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions.
Why are all the artists so dead-set on distorting? It seems to be a reaction against photography, but I'm not sure.
The reality comes first, and the symbol comes after. I see these things, and suddenly they become symbolic of life.
You always have the memory of the bottom, and fear of the bottom. And when you start going to the bottom you panic.
I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.