A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One cannot do just anything. A talented artist cannot do whatever he pleases. If he only used his gifts, he would not exist. We are not the masters of what we produce. It is imposed on us.
Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
Precision is not reality
The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
A colourist makes his presence known even in a simple charcoal drawing.
The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I am alone and feel good, even the model exists only for what use I can make of it.
The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.
I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there.
The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
The sign is determined at the moment I use it and for the object of which it must form a part. For this reason I cannot determine in advance signs which never change, and which would be like writing: that would paralyze the freedom of my invention.
Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole.
From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.
Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of the composition for which they were created, these signs have no further use.
Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.
I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.
The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.
A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.
Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every separate part will be visible and... everything which has no utility in the picture is for that reason harmful.
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