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Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and vision.
When I thought about the absolute favourite of favourites or what stood for the best of haute couture, it was Givenchy.
The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.
O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.
I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist.
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
Education without religion is in danger of substituting wild theories for the simple commonsense rules of Christianity.
I love to dwell on the thought that the artist is next in divinity to the saint. He, like the saint, performs miracles.
Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path?
My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.
The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.
The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting.
I think if you have a passion for what you do then there are no limitations on how long or how much you can accomplish.
When you get older, you don't have to eat a lot. I get my rest and sleep very well at night. It keeps me very balanced.
The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too
I believe more and more that God must not be judged on this earth. It is one of His sketches that has turned out badly.
The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.
Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark.
I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation
As soon as I put my foot on Indian soil, my painting underwent a change not only in subject and spirit but in technique.
I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.
Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.
It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have.
My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50...I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much that I never stopped.
I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.
I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.
If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me short of visiting every nation of Indians on the Continent of North America.
I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
I know dock leaves pretty well, but I should not attempt to introduce them into a picture without having them before me.
I think a lot of people take a scholarly approach where they feel like you're supposed to study things that depress you.
In America , there's a just-add-water reality TV world in which people expect to get their Warholian 15 minutes of fame.
Monsters exist because we create them, through war and violence, and distortion, and the way we handle people and so on.
The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.
The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement
I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.
Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).
The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles).
For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.
Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window.
As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.
An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies.
The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.