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The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.
When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
The only thing that's important is the legend created by the picture, and not whether it continues to exist itself.
When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.
Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.
Whoever says he is starting from a given in nature may be right, and so is he who says he is starting from nothing!
All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.
Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger.
I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don't apply to those who live on the fringe.
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.
Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.
Some of my favorite pieces are from thrift shops. When I find something I really love, I live, work and sleep in it.
It is only too easy to catch people's attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.
I'm very happy, very delighted. I'm setting to like a fighting cockerel, for I'm surrounded here by all that I love.
I grew up around whites, I grew up around Jews, I grew up around blacks, I grew up around Hispanics. We moved a lot.
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
I have copies of the books my grandfather illustrated for Scribner's in each house. I read those books all the time.
Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue
As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.
Artists have been very good at working for the church and for the state; communicating the aspirations of a society.
Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.
Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.
True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all.
Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them.
When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
I'm not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever.
The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.
I love all dots. I am married to many of them. I want all dots to be happy. Dots are my brothers. I am a dot myself.
If you end up falling in love with someone, it's because of them. If you end up hating someone, it's because of you.
Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.
What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?
Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.
Surely it is the right wish that draws us to the right place. Nothing of importance happens accidentally in our life.
It's the imperfections that make something beautiful, that's what makes it different and unique from everything else.
I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.
What is it that's taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my powers?
For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting
As a writer, you have to be mean and vicious. Use the pen as your gun. Sometimes the people you write about get hurt.
I mostly paint animals I'm familiar with, but I did a series of paintings of ravens, so I read everything about them.
I want to put strongly and completely all that is necessary, for things weakly said might as well not be said at all.
When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop art was fun.
I was surrounded by art by virtue of not only the educational opportunities that my mother's foresight availed me to.
I think that one of the questions that I asked of myself in later years was to this point of the political directive.