The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.
Never join an organization.
It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible.
In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.
The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.
I like the rule that corrects emotion.
One must not imitate what one wants to create.
Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.
I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything.
Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.
Art is made to trouble but science reassures.
When one reaches this state of harmony between things and one's self, one reaches a state of perfect freedom and peace-which makes everything possible and right. Life becomes perpetual revelation.
To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.
Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own accord; they were born on the canvas... it is absurd to read any sort of symbolic significance into them.
Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the artist took, and he will experience that it is the path which counts more than the outcome of it, and that the route taken has been the most interesting part.
Evidence exhausts the truth.
Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.
Art upsets, science reasures.
One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable.
Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.
Whatever is in common is true; but likeness is false.
Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
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