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
It took me a lifetime.
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings...
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
It takes a long time to become young.
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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.
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he is a poet, or even, if he is a boxer, just...
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to...
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Youth has no age.
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my...
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.