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I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil.
Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.
Lenin in a top hat and frock coat would be a far greater anomaly than the Grand Lama of Thibet or a Zulu chief in that costume.
I don't care about anybody's opinion - I care that my movies move you in a way to think about things and consider your own life.
I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.
I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just like life does.
It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.
What it is is a type of editorialization, you know? This is self-portraiture. This is what you think about the world we live in.
Obama stands as a signal that this nation will continue to redefine what it means to push beyond the borders of what's possible.
I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils
I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a previous conclusion.
All my originality consists?in giving life in human fashion to beings which are impossible according to the laws of possibility.
Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.
Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.
By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven't yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it . . . .
We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such a blunder.
There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.
Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.
As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself.
It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.
Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.
Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.
My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint.
It is the soul that sees; the outward eyes Present the object, but the Mind descries. We see nothing till we truly understand it.
If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
What you have in my work is one person's path as he travels through the world, and there is no limitation of what is conceivable.
What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.
Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the better!
It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.
It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.
Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring.
Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.
The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe.
What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.
My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste.
Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.
Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.
Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.
Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.