 The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is. |
| Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint. |
| 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. |
| He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. |
| 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 washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. |
| All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. |
| I do not seek. I find. |
| When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it. |
| If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes. |
| I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting! |
| 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. |
| Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. |
| I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. |
| The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense. |
| They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better. |
| It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. |
| What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. |
| The hidden harmony is better than the obvious. |
| You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. |
