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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
Make chance essential.
I paint in order not to cry.
Becoming is superior to being.
One eye sees, the other feels.
Genius is the error in the system.
Color and I are one. I am a painter.
There is no substitute for intuition.
A line is a dot that went for a walk.
See with one eye, feel with the other.
A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.
I still come closest to success with drawing.
Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk.
Be winged arrows aiming at fulfillment and goal.
Art doesn't reflect what we see; it makes us see.
Art makes something a lot more visible or audible.
You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox.
He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.
One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side.
Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.
I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive.
Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin.
Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.
Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
...A long struggle lies in store for me in this field of color.
The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.
All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!
We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing.
The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.
An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake.
Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest.
I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe.
A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.
I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute.
The way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way itself.
It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions.
All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.
A line comes into being. It goes out for a walk, so to speak, aimlessly for the sake of the walk.
The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture.
To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.
Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies.
It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being.
It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.
Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.
When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles).
