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You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone.
It is extraordinary to see the sea; what a spectacle! She is so unfettered that one wonders whether it is possible that she again become calm.
If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait.
The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps?
Animals are not cute. They are disturbing. Pigs do eat their young. Actually, I hate pigs. I just happen to have some who are friends of mine.
You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.
Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.
Status and class and social anxiety and perhaps social code are all released when you look at paintings of powerful individuals from the past.
I think it was a matter of, like, I'm not going to have my kids in these wild streets. Both my twin brother and I were in art school together.
I understand blackness from the inside out. What my goal is, is to allow the world to see the humanity that I know personally to be the truth.
I think the pairing of your material practice with your subject is something that is the constant concern of every artist for time immemorial.
The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul.
A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with as many other waves as there are uneven places in the object where the said wave is produced.
When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'
Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names.
That's what I mean by something grips in a canvas. The moment that happens you are then sucked into the whole thing. Like some kind of rhythm.
Only conscious man can mirror the universal: he can consciously become one with the universal and so can consciously transcend the individual.
I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.
I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones.
But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight.
No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.
If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment.
It seems at times I should be a composer of sounds, not only of rhythms and colors. Walking under the trees, I felt as if the color made sound.
A lot of what Trinidad is about is the feeling of the place, the atmosphere of the place, particularly at night, and the mystery of the forest.
I wear myself out and struggle with the sun. And what a sun here! It would be necessary to paint here with gold and gemstones. It is wonderful.
The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.
I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid.
pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence
To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.
Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period in which he lives.
It isn't necessary to make things large to make them monumental; a head by Giacometti one inch high would be able to vitalize this whole space.
Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.
For thousands of years art was seen as a source of responsible moral and ethical leadership. Today, taking that stance is almost seen as comic.
I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action.
In some way they are all self-portraits, but I think I know what you mean by asking this - I would say, it is too idealistic to paint yourself.
There's nothing like a little fear or hunger to motivate one's inspiration. To take that away from a young artist can offer quite a disservice.
All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.
Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.
I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.
Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.
I have a real passion for bones. I have many others in Boisgeloup: skeletons of birds, dog's and sheep's heads. I even have a rhinoceros skull.
I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.
In a way, I pattern myself after all the bands I used to like as a kid. Every time they put out LPs, they had a whole new look and a new sound.
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses.
I started at school. When I painted, all the girls would come and sit around me. I realised that this was a really good way to get girlfriends.
Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.
Movement is the translation of life, and if art depicts life, movement should come into art, since we are only aware of living because it moves.
As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child