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Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that; they wanted to safeguard their freedom.
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.
Work cures everything.
Precision is not reality
My curves are not crazy.
Exactitude is not truth.
Creativity takes courage.
An artist is an explorer.
Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
Creation begins with vision.
To arrive is to be in prison.
Art is an escape from reality.
A certain blue enters your soul
What I dream of is an art of balance.
Another word for creativity is courage.
I'm growing old, I delight in the past.
All art worthy of the name is religious.
Nothing can be accomplished without love.
Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
What I am after, above all, is expression.
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
In love, the one who runs away is the winner.
An artist must not feel under any constraint.
Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting.
The truly original artist invents his own signs.
Drawing is of the Spirit and color of the Senses.
I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work.
Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation
Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
Seek for the boldest color possible, content is irrelevant.
There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.
Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving.
A certain color tones you up. It's the concentration of timbres.
Exactitude is not truth. [Fr., L'exactitude n'est pas la verite.]
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
