Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Destruction is also creation.
Humor is the only reason to live.
Chess is a sport. A violent sport.
It's the viewer that makes the work.
Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing.
I was poking fun at myself most of all.
Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.
Anything is art if an artist says it is.
Can works be made which are not 'of art'?
Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.
It is the spectators who make the pictures.
I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
The only thing that is not art is inattention
There is no solution, for there is no problem.
Can one make works which are not works of 'art'?
It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.
Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided.
Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination.
Art doesn't interest me. Only artists interest me.
A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting.
Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.
Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.
I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.
Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.
The most interesting thing about artists is how they live
Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.
My stay in Munich was the scene of my complete liberation.
I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal.
What am I? Do I know? I am a man: quite simply, a 'breather.'
I'm nothing else but an artist, I'm sure, and delighted to be.
Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.
Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.
I wanted to kill art for myself.. ..a new thought for that object.
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.
In the midst of each epoch, I fully realize that a new epoch will dawn.
From a purely ethnological point of view, I was not a period-born Dada.
While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
Everything important that I have done can be put into a little suitcase.
Words such as truth, art, veracity, or anything are stupid in themselves.
There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.
The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it.
An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.
I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?
For me, the 'Three Stoppages' was a first gesture liberating me from the past.
Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.
My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.
No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime.
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in.