An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine,...
Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.
I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the...
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.