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- Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
- In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy…
- I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I…
- Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a…
- The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One…
- Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.
- If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as possible,…
- When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.
- Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?
- What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape: it is the human figure.
- Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
- I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
- What I dream of is an art of balance.
- The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.
- The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.
- Modern art spreads joy around by its color, which calms us.
- It would be a mistake to ascribe this creative power to an inborn talent. In art, the genius creator is not just a gifted being,…
- I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
- ...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
- ...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
- It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that is disconcerting or…
- Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.
- The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model.
- Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.
- I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.
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