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Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
I think everybody can be beautiful. Anybody can have beauty. It's about how you look at the world, in a way, and how you treat yourself.
I want the government to resign and an emergency government to be proclaimed, preferably made up of women. They can't do worse than men.
The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence.
There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual.
I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality.
A painting of any quality is always going to have nerdy energy, an affirmation behind it. It's gonna be like a kid playing a video game.
The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.
In the last analysis, the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius; he will have to wait for the verdict of posterity.
When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.
When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.
People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it.
I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.
The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me.
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 high point for me in my career was when Sinatra called me his favourite performer in the Fifties. And I've been sold out ever since.
To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace
I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.
The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent.
Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.
I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.
Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.
The tattoo can only exist as part of the skin, as a drawing always is an incision in the material and therefore cannot be parted from it.
You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted.
The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the water.
I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything in my head before I do it.
It's about the climate-change "denial industry", ...we should have war crimes trials for these bastards - some sort of climate Nuremberg.
I must live in my own excrement, breathe in my own poisonous sticky fumes. Yet I am a human being! I still am. Does no one think of that?
What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.
I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.
There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master paintings.
The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.
Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise.
When you get to be my age, you begin to count how many Mays you have left - the best time of year for flowers and birds in North America.
One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.
I had the greatest time of my life in England for a couple of years, and Robert Farnon made some of the best music I've ever been around.
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.
You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.
The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.
When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.
Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.
An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities.
Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.
It is necessary that... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable of doing great deeds.
We like to learn all we need from earlier generations, but we have to find out for ourselves what we need; nobody else can do that for us.
Traditionally, art has been for the select few. We have been brainwashed to believe that Michelangelo had to pat you on the head at birth.
I have once more taken up things that can't be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I'm always tackling that sort of thing!
It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the company of his betters.
My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.