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Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.
I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its the most radical thing.
I don't know if anything in nature ever grows exactly the same, but they are always exactly as the way it should be, perfectly itself.
I'm knocked out, I've never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I'm quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.
Among the seascapes, I am doing the regattas of Le Havre with many figures on the beach and the outer harbor covered with small sails.
I lived in London for a time in the '90s and I love it here. You know, I just go and see shows and have great dinners and walk around.
There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.
If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.
A lot of people... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid.
The great thing about a painter is that he or she lives on - I mean, Andrew Wyeth is more in his paintings than he was walking around.
Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.
Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language.
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness.
Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.
How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning.
The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.
To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.
I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.
I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them, and I really liked having them around.
A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.
Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.
I have continued to paint; my father - who was savaged by the critics - continued to paint until practically the last week of his life.
Whether you think you like Rubens or not, his influence runs through the pathways of painting. Like Warhol, he changed the game of art.
What is portraiture? It's choice. It's the ability to position your body in the world for the world to celebrate you on your own terms.
To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul.
Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt.
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
The most beautiful landscape cannot hold my fascinated attention as much as nature by the seaside and all that is connected with water.
Things were sort of Bohemian in Montmartre - one lived, one painted, one was a painter - all that doesn't mean anything, fundamentally.
(I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. ...rendering the God-spirit in the mountains.
Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice.
All is well with me. The rain doesn't reach me, my room is well heated, what more can one ask for? There's no shortage of work, either.
All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.
Is passion what we are? Is that what we are in pictures? Is what we are in pictures almost real? Maybe it's become the most real thing.
I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention.
But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable
The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.
One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting.
What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully.
If you plagiarize others' techniques, you steal their emotions and tell your spectators a lie with your work. Works as such equal zero.
It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice.
I've been working so hard that I'm exhausted... I feel I won't be able to do without a few weeks' rest, so I'm going off to see the sea.
This is a little off subject, but I'm interested in those cases where someone is barking up the wrong tree, or misapplying their talent.
I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid.