Pierre Alechinsky Quotes

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• When I paint, I liberate monsters They are the manifestations of all the doubts, searches and groping for meaning and expression which all artists experience…
• Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.
• Only during the action is the idea of matter influenced.
• 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.…
• Those who largely rely on their hands and the beautiful or shocking traces of the imagination that they leave on the canvas ...CONCRETE... one builds…
• When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting, he finds in…
• Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.
• 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 entirely…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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 discovery…
• The deliberate expansion of means and methods does not automatically bring a new dimension of value.

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