What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
I should like to be famous and unknown.
I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.
One does not marry art. One ravishes it.
What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my studio, what use is my mind? I have my model, my pencil, my paints. My mind doesn't interest me.
The frame is the reward of the artist.
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
It seems to me that today, if the artist wishes to be serious - to cut out a little original niche for himself, or at least preserve his own innocence of personality - he must once more sink himself in solitude. There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profit; in order to do anything at all we need (so to speak) the wit and ideas of our neighbors as much as the businessmen need the funds of others to win on the market. All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment.
Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are concerned with nothing beyond their physical occupations... it is as if you were looking through a keyhole.
He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.
If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.
Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.
For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.
Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.
A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.
It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.
Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.
Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy. If then two or three natural accents can be added, obviously no harm is done. The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.
A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.
Only two of my personalities are schizophrenic, but one of them is paranoid and the other one is out to get him. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.
Instantaneity is photography.
The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.
Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.
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