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- People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.
- It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.
- I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which…
- I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There's…
- You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten,…
- There's nothing more difficult than a line.
- When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do it over several…
- When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.
- To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my…
- Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides,…
- What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.
- I've reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.
- Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall fall on my…
- You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better; it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting.
- The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.…
- The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor…
- From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.
- Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should…
- I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to…
- To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not…
- Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
- Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
- To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
- An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
- The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
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