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I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it.
If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.
Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects
When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.
Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.
All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?
The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
Imitators? All right! Disciples if you like. But disciples be damned. It's not interesting.
In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.
For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart
The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.
The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.
People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...
An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.
You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it.
If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!
What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.
Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.
What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists.
There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes
When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.
I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.
I've reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.
I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.
I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.
Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.
"Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance.
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done
The fingerprints of the god who amused himself fashioning them - I can see them on any bone whatsoever.
When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.
Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.
People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.
That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working.
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.
One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.
No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.