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.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.
Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.
Man, there's no boundary line to art!
Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.
I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.
I think about my work every minute of the day.
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
Cutting straight into color reminds me of the direct carving of the sculptor.
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