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 opposite. I must account for every line, shape and colour and I am forced to give… — 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
