A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art school with other students. He does not yet know that one day he will have to face himself as a solitary creature… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can be an agreeable passage of time. In fact, solitude then becomes a kind of companion. — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
People think you can get out your canvas and paint any time you have a free moment. You can't. Commercial art and painting are… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
When I paint, I liberate monsters They are the manifestations of all the doubts, searches and groping for meaning and expression which all artists… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's just the… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form. — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
The main thing is that we are part of the reality in ourselves to perfect one's power of discovery and that leads to the… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art school with other students. He does… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter. — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
The deliberate expansion of means and methods does not automatically bring a new dimension of value. — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting, he finds… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
Those who largely rely on their hands and the beautiful or shocking traces of the imagination that they leave on the canvas ...CONCRETE... one… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
