“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.”
Art“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
Art“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.”
Art“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”
Art“To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.”
Work“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.”
Work“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
Art“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
Success“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”
Art“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.”
Happiness“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.”
Art“I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.”
History“There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.”
Women“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”
Life“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”
Imagination“The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.”
Art“Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.”
Positive“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
Good“If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.”
Truth“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.”
Art“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.”
Work“Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.”
Success