Pierre Alechinsky

Only during the action is the idea of matter influenced.

— Pierre Alechinsky

People think you can get out your canvas and paint any time you have a free moment. You can't. Commercial art and…

— Pierre Alechinsky

When I paint, I liberate monsters They are the manifestations of all the doubts, searches and groping for meaning and expression which…

— Pierre Alechinsky

Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's…

— Pierre Alechinsky

Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.

— Pierre Alechinsky

The main thing is that we are part of the reality in ourselves to perfect one's power of discovery and that leads…

— Pierre Alechinsky

Everything that you paint may be used as evidence against you.

— Pierre Alechinsky

A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art school with other students.…

— Pierre Alechinsky

Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.

— Pierre Alechinsky

The deliberate expansion of means and methods does not automatically bring a new dimension of value.

— Pierre Alechinsky

When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting,…

— Pierre Alechinsky

Those who largely rely on their hands and the beautiful or shocking traces of the imagination that they leave on the canvas…

— Pierre Alechinsky

Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can…

— Pierre Alechinsky