There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Art must take reality by surprise.
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Painting is silent poetry.
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.
Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
Life is short and art is long.
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.
Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.
I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents itself as the Unmanageable, the Illogical, the Meaningless.
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