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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.
An honest man always values earning honor over wealth.
Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation
Every picture one paints involves not painting others.
And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.
That's the job of art: to undo the logic of the world.
When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.
If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.
You have first to experience what you want to express.
You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.
Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.
There is no standard way of using painting techniques.
We want our happy little clouds to float across the sky
I don't think I met anyone posh until I went to London.
No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.
I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
I will make up for it now, I have not a moment to lose.
He who does Christ's work must stay with Christ always.
A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
I do not believe in things. I believe in relationships.
The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.
Art is the expression of the artist´s overflowing soul.
Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.
Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her I look for fame.
A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.
Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.
A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.
Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.
Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.
All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.
Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting.
I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive.
It is a task of art to express clear vision of reality.
An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius
Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.
I am really the most controversial artist in the world.
Fame comes and goes. Longevity is the thing to aim for.