I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.
Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.
That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.
The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being and which he has the power to place, to encrust, to impregnate into the pictorial matter of the painting.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.
What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.
I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.
The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
Art is what you can get away with.
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