My love affair with painting is bittersweet.

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.

In art, practice always comes before theory.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.

You must come again when you have less time.

Laughter is the Wild Body's song of triumph.

I'm really into California art from the '60s.

Invention is totally independent of the will.

Remember, light and shadow never stand still.

I've always set out to embrace all that I am.

In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.

Art is made to trouble but science reassures.

The question of sex will take care of itself.

I just can't whip off a likeness of somebody.

He who fears dangers will not perish by them.

The painter strives and competes with nature.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

The only thing that is not art is inattention

All things considered, there is only Matisse.

If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.

I still come closest to success with drawing.

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.

What painting is, is exactly what people see.

My goal is never to copy. Create a new style.

Love is the stepping stone to new beginnings.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.

When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes.

Newton's health, and confusion to mathematics.

Just let go - and fall like a little waterfall

wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it

I believe in God, but I'm not dominated by it.

I never tried to stage, to fabricate an image.

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.

Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Most early Icelandic paintings are landscapes.

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