Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
The artist in me cries out for design.
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.
Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do [with great artists]; with artists like these we do really fly from star to star.
Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.
Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.
Artists are fiery; they do not weep.
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.
Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
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