My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Every good painter paints what he is.
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.
Don't worry about mistakes. Making things out of mistakes, that's creativity.
In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands ... it lies in his power to create them . . .
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective
When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because there is a feeling of harmony and unbroken rhythm that runs through the whole design, each letter kin to every other and to all.
A kiss from my mother made me a painter.
Everything you can imagine is real.
What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch... And it's at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself.
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
The good painter is the one who buries a color every day.
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun
At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
I don't say everything, but I paint everything.
To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
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