It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
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.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.
I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.
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. The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art
There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Every artist was first an amateur.
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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